This is the story of Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan, who shared the set over 30 years ago and are now Oscar winners.

The occasion of the 2023 Oscars ceremony came together again Brenda Fraser And Ke Huy Quan, who had worked together for the first and only time more than 30 years ago Encino man (1992). The movie is a comedy that tells what a caveman’s life would be like if he lived in modern times and went to high school like any other normal American teenager.

Fraser played the caveman, named Link, while Quan played a teenager named Kim, who invites Link to join the high school computer club.

encino man it was a key film in Fraser’s early career, as he was named Most Promising Actor by the Chicago Film Critics Association. Quan, for his part, had already tasted stardom for his role as Short Round alongside Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Thirty-two years after shooting the film, both actors are now established names in their fields, after multiple setbacks in their careers and personal lives. Fraser won the Oscar for Best Actor for his leading role in The whalewhile Quan won the statuette in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role in Everything everywhere at once.

The A24 studio film won 7 of the 11 categories in which it was nominated.

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Last January, Fraser and Quan took part in a roundtable organized by the media The Hollywood Reporter. At one point, Quan admitted that the actor’s portrayal The mummy made him cry. “I only made one mistake watching that movie: I didn’t bring scarves,” the actor noted. Everything everywhere at once. “Brendan and I met outside for the first time in years and he said, ‘Ke, we’re still here. We’re still here.’”

After the Academy awarded their statuettes, Fraser was conducting an interview when he was interrupted by a visibly emotional Quan. “Oh my god, we did it, we did it, we did it!” the Vietnam-born actor told Fraser, adding that he never thought the two would win Oscars more than 30 years ago when they filmed. encino man.

They both had a break in their careers, Fraser because of his divorce, the death of his mother and alleged sexual abuse at the hands of Phillip Berk, and Quan because the vacancies kept coming. Fraser reflected on their travels: “There are times in a career when the phone stops ringing for one reason or another, but in this case something intense and creative intervened for both of us. Something we can put our heart and soul into, like we’ll never get the chance to do something like that again.”