Everything Everywhere All at Once Cast Reacts to Oscar Noms
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" Cast Reflects on "Unbelievable" 11 Oscar Nominations
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Kwan reflected on the historic nominations in a lengthy caption on Instagram. "This morning, with the Oscar nominee announcement, it was hard not to imagine myself as a kid and how impossible this would have seemed to him," he wrote. "No one in my family worked in arts or entertainment, I didn't even think it was a possibility for me to make a living as a creative person. My entire childhood I would suppress my creative urges because I didn't think I had a future there. It also meant I spent most of childhood believing I had very little to offer the world."
He added, "I can't overemphasise how unexpected any of this was when we were shooting this film. The fact that we got to make this movie would have been enough for any of us."
Kwan also spoke about the Jan. 21 shooting in the predominantly Asian American community of Monterey Park, CA, writing, "It is bizarre and somewhat nauseating to be celebrating this morning after the string of tragedies that took place over the weekend. I wish us all the grace and space to process and heal in the chaos."