Ke Huy Quan’s remarkable Hollywood story continues to add more storybook chapters. From coming to America as a refugee to his global stardom as a child actor to leaving acting behind for several decades to a comeback that earned him an Oscar. Now he follows that up with his name above the title of a new action comedy, Love Hurts. Ke tells Marc how all of these memories play out for him and how the vivid recent ones illuminate older memories such as fleeing Vietnam, reuniting with his family in LA, and his dejection when he couldn’t see a way to get back into acting. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What is Ke Huy Quan's journey from refugee to Oscar winner?
Yeah. What is the makeup? What province do most of the people in Chinatown come from? Is there a specific one?
It's a variety. But then this is what I'm talking about, like in the 1970s. The majority of them were Vietnamese Chinese refugees.
Yeah. Okay.
But then you also have the Chinese people. who lived here for a long time already. They didn't come in the 70s. They probably came way earlier than we did.
Maybe in the 1800s for the wrong reasons. But, I mean, did you feel a class tension between the Chinese community that had been there forever and the new people?
No, no. Not really? No.
Do you speak Vietnamese?
No, I don't. But my older siblings do. We all spoke the same language. We spoke Chinese. And everybody there spoke, you know, Chinese.
Yeah, yeah.
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