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Awards season darlings Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser are catching up for the primary time in a long time!

On the twenty eighth annual Critics Alternative Awards on Sunday evening, the Every part In all places All at As soon as star, 51, mirrored on seeing Fraser, 54, for the primary time in “nearly 32 years” as they each took house awards for greatest supporting actor and greatest actor, respectively.

“It was nice to see him once more. I really like him in The Whale,” Quan instructed reporters of Fraser, with whom he costarred within the 1992 comedy Encino Man, within the press room after accepting his award on Sunday. “What a robust efficiency.”

Quan famous that Fraser “gave me an enormous hug and put his arm on my shoulder” once they “noticed one another for the primary time after 30 years” as each actors emerged as awards season contenders for his or her film comebacks in 2022.

“He put his hand on my shoulder and he stated this, he was nonetheless right here,” Quan instructed reporters of his reunion with Fraser. “I’ll always remember these three phrases and it is truly proper.”

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“For me, I can’t consider I am nonetheless right here,” Quan added, in reference to how a lot time has handed since Encino Man. “It has been a wild trip ever since that film got here out.”

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Quan and Fraser’s careers intersected once they made Encino Man. Fraser’s starring position within the movie as an unfrozen primitive human man dropped into the Nineteen Nineties helped kickstart his appearing profession, whereas the film proved considered one of Quan’s final appearances in entrance of the digicam earlier than he re-emerged in Every part In all places All at As soon as.

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Even after Quan gained one other trophy on the eightieth Golden Globe Awards final Tuesday, the actor admitted to reporters that he was “so, so nervous” as he arrived on the Critics Alternative Awards Sunday.

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“My coronary heart remains to be pounding,” the actor stated of the expertise. “I simply, each time I give it some thought, I take into consideration these years that I used to be struggling. It is so sophisticated. I do not know, my thoughts, it is so blurry proper now.”

“I can’t consider I gained this,” Quan continued. “I can’t consider I gained Golden Globes on Tuesday. It is unbelievable. I actually am. I do not know what to say other than saying I really feel very fortunate, and I really feel very grateful. And I thank [Everything Everywhere co-directors] the Daniels so, so, a lot.”

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As Quan accepted his award on Sunday, he famous that his “comeback story may have been very totally different had been it not for the critics.”

“You’ve got not solely helped audiences discover our little film however you’ve got helped audiences keep in mind who I’m,” the actor stated of Every part In all places. “For that I’m so grateful to you.”