In 1984, he played Short Round in ‘Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom’ and followed that up the next year as the gadget-obsessed Data in ‘The Goonies.’ He is also known for playing Jasper Kwong on the last season of the sitcom ‘ Head of The Class.’ Then: Quan, who was born in Vietnam and moved to the United States as a boy, played a large role in two pretty huge Steven Spielberg-produced hits of the mid-’80s. Since then, he has starred as President Bush in ‘W’ and snagged an Oscar nomination for playing Dan White in ‘Milk.’ Brolin also starred in ‘Men in Black 3′ and ‘Labor Day.’ In 2013, his nine-year marriage to Diane Lane officially ended in divorce. Now: Brolin returned to feature films in the mid-’90s, with supporting roles in movies such as ‘Bed of Roses’ and ‘Flirting With Disaster.’ His career got bigger and bigger and by 2007 he was playing the lead in ‘No Country For Old Men,’ which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It wasn’t long after that he snagged his first role, as big brother Brand Walsh in ‘The Goonies.’ He followed that up the next year with the lead role in 1986′s skater flick ‘Thrashin.’ Brolin believed his acting in that film to be “horrendous,” so he took about a decade break from movies, honing his craft on TV and in community theater. Then: Josh Brolin is the son of actor James Brolin, but wasn’t exposed to his dad’s business until he took a theater class as a high school student. From what we can gather, Gardner is not a large, inarticulate fellow with a crooked face and an unusual hairstyle. Now: Cohen’s last screen credit was as a 16-year-old in the TV movie ‘Perfect Harmony.’ These days the 39-year-old, who has lost a lot of hair and a lot of weight since his time as a Goonie, is an attorney and the founding partner of Cohen & Gardner LLP, a firm which practices entertainment-related law. Chunk was also known for his unique ‘Hawian shirt on plaid pants’ fashion sense and the notorious ‘ Truffle Shuffle.’ Cohen had appeared in ‘The Facts of Life,’ ‘Family Ties’ and ‘Benson’ before ‘The Goonies.’ Then: In ‘The Goonies,’ Jeff Cohen played Chunk, the Goonie with the biggest appetite. Lately, Feldman has been seen in the Katy Perry video ‘Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)’ and the UK version of ‘Dancing on Ice.’ Like Astin, he’s also done voice work for ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.’ Feldman starred with his longtime friend in the 2007-2008 reality show ‘The Two Coreys’ and left the program in protest of Haim’s continued drug abuse. Now: A great deal of Feldman’s later career has been defined by his relationship with Haim, who died in 2010 at age 39. Then: Feldman had been a working actor since age 6, but his biggest role to date was the wisecracking Mouth in ‘The Goonies.’ Much success followed for Feldman, including roles in ‘Stand By Me’ and ‘Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.” Of course, there were also his collaborations with the other Corey (Haim) in ‘The Lost Boys,’ ‘License To Drive’ and ‘Dream A Little Dream.’ He continues to work steadily and, in 2013, even made a cameo in co-star Corey Feldman’s bizarre music video In 2012, the 41-year-old appeared on episodes of ‘NCIS’ and ‘Franklin & Bash,’ and provided the voice of Raphael in the pilot for the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ animated TV series. Now: Astin is known for playing the title character in the inspirational football tale ‘Rudy’ and the hobbit Sam Gamgee in the ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy - a duo of roles that would make him the envy of just about any actor out there. The son of actress Patty Duke, he first appeared on the small screen in 1981 opposite his mother in the TV-movie ‘Please Don’t Hit Me, Mom.’ Then: Astin played asthma-stricken treasure hunt ringleader Mikey Walsh in ‘The Goonies,’ which was his feature film debut. Most of us will know Sean Astin as Samwise Gamjee in Lord of the Rings. The Goonies Cast – Then and Now: Sean Astin – Mikey Walsh The film’s premise features a band of pre-teens who live in the “Goon Docks” neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon attempting to save their homes from demolition, and in doing so, discover an old Spanish map that leads them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willie, a legendary 17th-century pirate. The screenplay was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg. The Goonies was a 1985 American adventure–comedy film directed by Richard Donner. We absolutely loved this movie and shaped our childhood opening up a world of pirates, lost treasure and adventure! With the amazing news that a Goonies sequel is in the works, we thought we’d take a look back at the Goonies Cast – Then and now.
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