What happened to Jeff Cohen? The former child actor has made an unusual career change.
If every time a villain urges his victim to confess, you wait for him to tell you about when he threw up in the movies, then Gordi is also your favorite character in the legendary Goonies. What happened to Jeff Cohen?
From goonie to lawyer
Born in 1974 in Los Angeles (USA), Jeffrey Bertan McMahon (his stage name comes from his mother’s surname) took his first steps in audiovisual game shows Child’s play AND body language. Her film debut was at the age of 9 in the TV movie small shots.
After brief appearances in such shows as Tales from the Darkside and Living and Learning, Cohen landed the role that would immortalize him in the cinematic imagination: that of Chunk in Richard Donner’s 1980s classic, The Goonies.
According to the actor, all of his previous roles included a Hawaiian shirt and plaid pants, something the director thought was a great idea and decided to incorporate into the character’s look. He also contracted chicken pox shortly before filming, but decided not to tell anyone so as not to lose the role. The signs of chicken pox can be seen in some scenes in the film.
The film was a huge success, catapulting such well-known actors as Josh Brolin, Sean Astin and Ke Huy Quan. However, Cohen’s career as an actor lasted just over a decade.
The Californian’s subsequent roles were practically special appearances, in series such as Histórias Maravilhosas, Caras and Caretas and You are the sheriffand as a voice actor in the series Popeye and son and in Scooby-Doo’s Haunted School. His last work was in 1991, in the TV movie Perfect harmony.
The summer after The Goonies was released, Cohen took advantage of the contacts he’d made thanks to the film to work in the offices of the film business.
This is how he discovered his calling: the law. After graduating from Berkeley with a degree in business, he asked Richard Donner for a letter of recommendation and earned a law degree from UCLA. He opened his own law firm in 2002 and began his career as an entertainment lawyer.
Since then, he has never stepped onto a film set as an actor, but he has made a name for himself in the legal profession, being recognized as one of the most influential executives of his generation by Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.
To come full circle, he was the one who negotiated Ke Huy Quan’s contract in Anywhere and Anywhere at the same time: “When the producer of the film closed the deal, he told us he never imagined he’d have to talk to Chunk and Data.”he recalled his fellow goonie.
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