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.
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All right, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers? What the fuck, buddies? What the fuck, Knicks? What's happening? I'm Mark Maron. This is my podcast. How's everybody holding up out there? What is going on? Nothing good. But, you know, I'm here. That's okay, right? I'm okay. I'm good, I guess. Right now, I'm having a good few minutes as we enter this episode of this show.
I hope you're holding up. I guess, you know, I've got a couple emails, a couple of DMS from people in Canada. And I I don't I'm sorry. I don't know what to tell you other than, look, we're we're very unhappy as well. And I don't know what it's going to take for. the whatever's left of legacy media to start reporting on this for what it is.
I guess we'll hang on to assessing this here as a just an odd presidency as opposed to what it really is until what it really is becomes undeniable. And again, I acknowledge my friends in Canada for what the monster here is doing. But we're all living in it. And it's not going to get good or better. Maybe ever. But hey, what'd you have for breakfast? Huh? What'd you have for breakfast?
Today, I talked to Ki-Hui Kwan, and it was kind of a great conversation. It's a beautiful human story, really. He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor two years ago for his role in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. He's now the lead of the action comedy Love Hurts. which opens this week, which I saw. It's a lot of martial arts action.
He definitely wanted to make an entertaining, satisfying, violent comedy. But we talked about his whole life, and it's quite a human tale. So that's happening. That is happening shortly. It'll happen right here. You know, I went out, and I'm doing the comedy, and it was an interesting weekend, actually. Me and Blair Saki... Drove up to, we started in, where was that first show? Santa Barbara.
We were in Santa Barbara. Then San Luis Obispo. And then Monterey. Beautiful drive. Beautiful, nice towns. Grown-up audiences. My audiences. Kind of an eclectic but specific bunch. But a lot of them. And if you know me from listening to this show, you know that I put an inordinate amount of pressure on myself to speak to the current moment, at least in my stand-up shows.
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