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TIL that Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies (1985), is now a Hollywood lawyer and actually negotiated the contract of his former Goonies co-star Ke Huy Quan (played Data in Goonies) for his casting in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

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