Jeff Cohen

Jeff Cohen got the part of Chunk in The Goonies (1985) partly by refusing to let chickenpox cost him the role. He showed up to film the Truffle Shuffle sequence visibly infected, choosing secrecy over common sense. The film made him one of the most recognizable kid actors of the decade. The problem was that Chunk worked because of his body type, and when puberty arrived, that body type left. He's said he went 'from Chunk to hunk' and found himself locked out of the roles he'd spent his childhood competing for.

Cohen co-founded the Beverly Hills entertainment firm Cohen & Gardner in 2002 and built a serious transactional practice. Variety put him on both its Dealmakers and Legal Impact lists. The Hollywood Reporter named him one of Hollywood's top 35 execs under 35 in 2008. The deal that made his career arc complete was negotiating Ke Huy Quan's contract for Everything Everywhere All at Once. Quan won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and thanked his 'Goonies brother for life, Jeff Cohen' from the stage.

Cohen has said his clients 'get a kick out of the fact their lawyer is Chunk.' He went to UC Berkeley for business, then UCLA School of Law, graduating in 2000. The real story is what happened between 1985 and that Oscar stage: two recognizable kids from the same blockbuster both stepped back from Hollywood, rebuilt on different terms, and when Quan was ready to return, his old castmate was the one holding the contract. That's not nostalgia. That's a long game.