Inside  Ke Huy Quan’s emotional Oscars  reunion with Harrison Ford

In a tearful Oscar acceptance speech, Ke Huy Quan said people think stories like his “only happen in the movies.”

And there is a good reason why the former Vietnamese refugee was so excited when he met with his old Indiana Jones co-star Harrison Ford after winning Best Supporting Actor on Sund

Quan was born in Saigon in 1971 in the midst of the Vietnam War when he was aged just seven, his parents decided to flee, settling in the  US in 1979.

Having been plucked from obscurity at the age of 12 by director Steven Spielberg to star in Indiana and the Temple of Doom in 1984, he became a child star.

But when he became an adult the roles dwindled. Quan said: "If you were to take 100 scripts, there was a high probability that none of them would feature any meaningful Asian chara

Eventually he moved to a variety of jobs behind the camera, including assistant director and fight coordinator. But when he saw Crazy Rich Asians in 2018, Quan realised Asian actor

That quickly led to Everything Everywhere All At Once, which was only his second acting job in 20 years and landed him an Oscar this weekend.

Inside  Ke Huy Quan’s emotional Oscars  reunion with Harrison Ford