Ke Huy Quan‘s spectacular awards season run and celebrated return to Hollywood capped off on the 2023 Oscars with a joyous embrace of his Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom co-star Harrison Ford.
Ford, whose newest Indiana Jones journey the Dial of Future is ready to hit theaters this June, served because the presenter for the most effective image class on the ninety fifth annual ceremony. Thus, he was already on stage when Quan accepted the win alongside his castmates and the artistic group of All the pieces All over the place All at As soon as.
The end result was an thrilling second by which the 2 elated stars embraced whereas celebrating EEOAO‘s historic win. Their reunion capped off a season of the duo repeatedly celebrating one another’s presence in Hollywood and on the awards circuit almost 40 years after making the Steven Spielberg-directed Temple of Doom. And it grew to become one of many principal moments of the evening, with Quan standing to cheer for Ford as he took the stage to current the class and, as soon as on stage collectively, briefly breaking away from Ford to make sure the 1923 and Shrinking star might hand the Oscar to the movie’s producers forward of the All the pieces All over the place All at As soon as group’s acceptance speech.
According to Entertainment Weekly, that reunion was not restricted to the stage, with the duo reconnecting — with an added handshake between Ford and EEAO co-director Daniel Kwan — as Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel stated his closing remarks.
All all through the 2023 awards season Quan, who performed Wan Li — a younger pickpocket in Shanghai nicknamed “Brief Spherical” who occurs to make Ford’s Indiana his goal earlier than the 2 bond — reconnected, with he and Ford repeatedly seen celebrating. “I’m so pleased for him. He’s a fantastic man,” Ford stated in a January interview with Entertainment Tonight. “He’s a beautiful actor. He was when he was a bit child, and he nonetheless is.”
And in a December interview with Uproxx, Ford expressed that Quan’s New York Critics Circle award for supporting actor and a possible Oscar nomination was “properly deserved!”
“I’ve had the chance to see the movie. He’s actually terrific in his film. And I’m so glad to see him … and what he has change into,” Ford added. “I’m so pleased for him.”
Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan on the ninety fifth annual Academy Awards.
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The query was in response to the duo’s preliminary reunion, which passed off on the D23 Expo again in September. Quan was in attendance to advertise season two of the Disney+ sequence Loki, with Ford additionally there for Marvel’s Captain America: New World Order.
“As I get nearer, he turns and factors his finger at me, and he has that traditional, well-known, grumpy Harrison Ford look,” Quan told The New York Times concerning the reunion. “I am going, ‘Oh my gosh, he most likely thinks I’m a fan and he’s gonna inform me to not come close to him.’ However he seems to be and factors at me and says, ‘Are you Brief Spherical?’ Instantly, I used to be transported again to 1984, after I was a bit child, and I stated, ‘Sure, Indy.’ And he stated, ‘Come right here,’ and gave me an enormous hug.”
Recalling their relationship on the time of filming the Indiana Jones movie, Quan added that whereas he didn’t know who Ford was, having not seen Star Wars or Raiders of the Misplaced Ark till after they completed their shared movie, “he was an incredible man.”
“So down-to-earth, so humble, and actually beneficiant as an actor,” he recounted of how they bonded. “And he taught me how you can swim. We have been simply hanging out on the swimming pool in Sri Lanka in our lodge, and he says, ‘Ke, have you learnt how you can swim?’ I didn’t, so he says, ‘Come on, I’ll train you.’”
Their reunion highlights the lengthy journey Quan has had with Hollywood, by which the actor of Vietnamese first rate stepped again from onscreen roles and pivoted to behind-the-camera work amid a dearth of alternatives.
“I bear in mind not having one single audition for a complete yr,” Quan told The Guardian in November of his performing experiences in his early 20s. “I assumed: ‘What am I doing? I can’t be ready for the cellphone to ring day by day.’ I used to be 23 at the moment. I used to be so misplaced. I simply didn’t see a future for myself as an actor.”
That was till 2018, when — as he recounted a number of occasions throughout awards season — the success of Loopy Wealthy Asians gave him hope that there have been alternatives for Asian actors in Hollywood.
Oscars evening additionally noticed Quan reuniting along with his Encino Man co-star, Brendan Fraser, who additionally took dwelling an Academy Award Sunday, and his Indiana Jones and Goonies director Spielberg. The pair marveled at their wins 32 years after Encino Man, with Quan telling GMA backstage of the Oscar statuette: “One of the crucial lovely issues this season is seeing this man once more, and seeing him maintain that.”
When talking backstage to press, together with THR, the Goonies star added, “Throughout one of many business breaks, I ran as much as Steven Spielberg and he gave me an enormous hug. He stated, ‘Ke, you are actually an Oscar-winning actor,’ and listening to him say that meant the world to me. I nonetheless can not imagine it. My youthful self wouldn’t know all of the struggles I went by means of to be right here as a result of he was simply having the time of his life being a child, being on a set, on a pirate ship taking place a water slide. [Goonies castmates] Corey Feldman, Kerri Inexperienced, Jeff Cohen, each single one among them is so pleased. Sean [Astin] reached out. Josh [Brolin], Martha [Plimpton] and we’re household endlessly. Goonies by no means say die.”
