‘Everything Everywhere’ cast and crew visit Monterey Park after California mass shooting
- The team decided to go ahead with a planned dim sum celebration in the tragedy-stricken Asian enclave a day before receiving a leading 11 Oscar nominations
- Actor Ke Huy Quan, who lived in the area for years, wanted to show support for the local community, saying: ‘This is not the time to stay away’
The evening before earning a leading 11 Oscar nominations, including best picture, director and three of four record-setting nods for actors of Asian descent, the cast and crew of Everything Everywhere All at Once gathered for dim sum in Monterey Park.
The celebration of their unlikely journey to the Academy Awards had been planned for weeks. Then Saturday’s mass shooting, which left 11 dead and nine others injured, rocked the predominantly Asian enclave and the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community at large, casting a pall over the otherwise hopeful Lunar New Year holiday.
Shocked and devastated, the EEAAO crew decided to go ahead with dinner at Atlantic Seafood and Dim Sum on Monday night, making a point to support and uplift a community still reeling from the tragedy.
When their group arrived, actor Ke Huy Quan was sad to find the area and its businesses relatively empty.
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“We started the night acknowledging what happened,” said Quan, who earned his first Oscar nomination on Tuesday for his supporting turn as the radically kindhearted Waymond Wang. “We had a moment of silence for the victims. We just wanted to show Monterey Park that we love them.”