The Academy Award winner made his Hollywood debut in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”
Indy and Short Round forever.
“When we shot this sequence, I was so scared,” shares Quan.
Ke Huy Quan and Harrison Ford in ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’.Paramount Pictures
“And I cried.
I remember Harrison Ford kneeling down in front of me and asking me if I was okay.”
When he said that, oh my gosh, it just made me love him so much more.
Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan at the 2023 Oscars.ABC
Here is Indiana Jones telling me that he’s gonna take care of me."
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“I was blown away by all of it.
I was only 13 then.
It made me fall in love with action.”
After graduation, he worked behind the camera, including as a stunt coordinator and assistant director alongsideWong Kar-wai.
In a full circle moment, it was Ford who presented the Best Picture win toEEAOat the 2023 Oscars.
A few months prior, the duo had reunited at the D23 Expo.
Would you want to go say hi?'"
Quan previously recalled toThe New York Times.
“And as I walk close, my heart is pounding.
I’m thinking, ‘Is he gonna recognize me?
The last time he saw me, I was a little kid.'”
But he looks and points at me and says, ‘Are you Short Round?’
And he said, ‘Come here,’ and gave me a big hug."
For more of Quan’s favorite action scenes, watch the video above.
