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Ke Huy Quan says his first residual check of $100,000 for 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' was "life-changing" as a child actor

In his memoir, Ke Huy Quan describes walking into his family's kitchen as a child and finding his parents holding an envelope from Lucasfilm with a residual check for nearly $100,000 from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. He writes that the amount made no sense to him, and that in that era almost no actors received a share of a film's profits — only the biggest stars did.

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