Pushkin. The This is talk easy. I'm San Frig Ki Hoi Kwan.

He began acting back in 1983 in the film Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom,

directed by the great Stephen Spielberg.

He was 12 years old at the time of casting, and when the movie was released the next year

in 1984, Key was praised for his betrayal of Short Round, the young Chinese

sidekick to Harrison Ford's titular archaeologist. It was, by all accounts, a momentous start to a career, especially one so young.

But in the years to follow, Kwan found it increasingly difficult to find work as a Chinese American actor. The systemic racism

embedded in Hollywood's casting system didn't help, although as you'll hear, key is not one to lay blame on the industry at large.

Thankfully, eventually, the movies caught up to Kwan's talents.

After nearly two decades of working behind the camera as an assistant director and

stunned coordinator, he found his light once more in the film Everything Everywhere

All At Once, directed by the Daniels.

In it, he plays Weymand, the patriarch of a Chinese-American immigrant family trying to heal

some intergenerational trauma. I should add that that's

probably the simplest description of a film that constantly defies longlines.

In case you haven't seen it yet, here's a bit from the trailer from everything everywhere all at once.

Definitely. I'm not your husband. I another version of I'm from another universe I'm here because we need your help

Very busy today. I'm no time to help you. Across the multiverse, I've seen thousands of everland.

You can access all of their memories, their emotions, Even the skills.

There's a great evil.

Spredits what the many verses.

And you, maybe your only chance of stopping it.

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