Ke Huy Quan’s Goonies co-star helped seal his Everything Everywhere All At Once deal
Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies, now serves as his co-star Ke Huy Quan's entertainment lawyer
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Goonies never say die; what they will do is carefully evaluate a contract and help an actor get the best deal possible. At least, that’s what Jeff Cohen, a.k.a. Chunk, has been up to in recent years, and he’s done so on behalf of his old co-star Ke Huy Quan for his triumphant comeback role in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
“Jeff Cohen, who was in The Goonies with me—he was Chunk—is all grown now and he’s an entertainment lawyer,” Quan told The Hollywood Reporter Actor Roundtable. “When the producer of our movie was trying to make my deal, he said he never imagined that he’d have to talk to Chunk and Data for his movie.”
Yet it makes a certain sort of sense when it comes to EEAAO, a movie so outrageous and so chock-full of cinematic references. Why shouldn’t another Goonie be involved behind the scenes? Fellow roundtable participant Adam Sandler asked, “Chunk get you a good deal, by the way?” To which Quan replied: “Jeff is an outstanding lawyer.”
It’s lucky that Quan had a friend on his side, because it had been a long time since his last foray into Hollywood. “I was so hungry for a script like this, for a role like this. I remember reading it until 5 a.m., and in my head I had all these ideas of what I wanted to do with this role,” he shared. “I was looking out the window, the sun was rising, and I said, ‘I have to go to sleep,’ because my audition was in the afternoon. It had been more than 25 years since I’d auditioned—I was so nervous, I was shaking.”
“The Daniels were so sweet. Sarah Finn, the casting director, was amazing. And then I didn’t hear from them for two months,” Quan recalled. “I was miserable because I wanted this role so bad. Finally, I went to audition for a second time, and then that phone call came. I was screaming so loud. I was jumping up so high. And to this day, I still cannot believe how everything came to be.”
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staaaahp this is too wholesome
This is the kind of feel good story I needed right now, thanks!I’d love to see some of The Goonies cast reunite for another movie even if that movie isn’t related/sequel to the original movie.
Coming soon to… oh let’s go with Apple Plus, because Brolin probably wouldn’t work for the TV-tier streamers.
long rumored sequel in development in which some of the Goonies return and their kids get caught up in a new adventure
Imagine my surprise when I got to college and Chunk was our student body president.
And now Golden Globe winner. He’s got the Oscar locked already. Job well done!
Not just that, I think he’s won every single Best Supporting Actor award he’s been nominated for (that the winners have been announced for) as well!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ke_Huy_Quan#Awards_and_nominations
This should probably make up for the worst thing Chunk ever did.
“But
the worst thing I ever done – I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and
then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up
to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this:
hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa – and then I dumped it over the side, all over the
people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people
started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt
so bad in my entire life.”
I cannot overstate how much I adore the fact that Chunk is Data’s lawyer.
I think it should be canon in the Goonies’ universe: Data did not grow up to be a scientist/inventor, but is instead an award-winning actor and Chunk is his (skinny) high-powered entertainment lawyer.
I was really happy for him when I saw the film a couple months ago. After a couple minutes on screen I was like “Is that Data?”
Meanwhile, in the row behind you, Brent Spiner wept quietly.