Quan’s $100k Temple of Doom Check: The Night It Changed His Family
Ke Huy Quan writes in his memoir Never Say Die that, at age 12, he received a residual check for about $100,000 for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom—an amount that was life-changing for his family since residuals were rare for child actors then; the gesture from Lucasfilm, given the film’s blockbuster status, was especially generous. Quan would later star in The Goonies and win an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once, and his memoir covers his early life fleeing Vietnam, his refugee years, and his remarkable return to cinema.
