Hollywood is notoriously fickle. It can create stars overnight and toss them aside as quickly, moving on to the next big thing.
Once you are gone, you are usually forgotten, with no second shot at stardom and no career do-overs. Beating the odds, we have not one but two big comeback stories this awards season, Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser.
They have both emerged as major awards contenders for the first time in their careers with their first major movie roles in decades, in Everything Everywhere All At Once (Quan) and The Whale (Fraser).
Their return to Hollywood’s top echelon was reaffirmed this morning when both received their first Oscar nomination — for Fraser, Lead Actor, and for Quan, Supporting Actor.
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