Ke Huy Quan Recalls the Six-Figure Check That Changed Everything

Ke Huy Quan writes in his new memoir, "Never Say Die," about the moment a residual check for $100,000 arrived for his role in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." He was a child actor at the time, and by his own account in the book, the sum was so large it barely registered as real. He described the payment as life-changing, telling readers it "didn't make any sense" to him then. The memoir traces that early windfall as one marker in a career that has since carried him back to Hollywood's biggest stages.

With reporting from Variety Film.