Interestingly enough, Ke Huy Quan did not have his heart set on acting in any type of film — it was his little brother who originally went to audition for “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” as auditions were held at their elementary school in Chinatown, L.A. Quan dished to Jimmy Kimmel, “I tagged along … and I was coaching him behind the camera, and the casting director saw me and asked me if I wanted to try… The next day, I got a call from Steven Spielberg’s office, and my mom heard ‘Hollywood,’ heard ‘famous director,’ she thought it was a really fancy meeting. So she put me in this three-piece suit with a little gold chain hanging out of the side pocket.”
That would be the call that would change his life forever — Quan flew to Sri Lanka a few weeks later to film “Temple of Doom.” It didn’t take long for Hollywood to fall in love with him; he was cast soon after in “The Goonies,” which had him working with Spielberg again and was a huge hit, as well. Quan knew his role as Data was a rare example of Asian-American representation at the time. He told Vulture, “That character is so smart and so brave and so weird. We didn’t have many great role models.”
Quan told Jimmy Kimmel that after joining the “Indiana Jones” franchise, he invited Spielberg and George Lucas to his birthday party; while they didn’t attend, Lucas had “Star Wars” toys delivered to Quan’s home in a U-Haul! Spielberg sent a TV with VHS tapes.
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