My character is a guy looking for a second chance. I understand second chances....

OSCAR WINNER KE HUY QUAN TELLS RACHAEL DAVIS ABOUT HIS NEW MARTIAL ARTS MOVIE AND AMAZING CAREER REBIRTH

- RACHAEL DAVIS

KE Huy Quan has had quite the rollercoaster film career.

After a break-out role as Short Round in the 1984 blockbuster Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom, he struggled to find good roles and took a 20-year acting sabbatical in the early Noughties. His return to acting in 2021 was quickly followed by a Golden Globe win, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for his role in Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Now, 40 years after he first appeared on screen, the 53-yearold Vietnam-born actor is making his debut as a leading man in martial arts film Love Hurts.

Ke Huy, by his own admission, doesn't look like an action hero, but despite his early protestations that his character Marvin Gable should be played by the likes of Jason Statham, Ke Huy was exactly what Love Hurts' director Jonathan Eusebio and producer David Leitch were looking for.

"(They) wanted to create a different kind of action hero..." says Ke Huy, who is joined by West Side Story star Ariana DeBose and The Lord Of The Rings and Stranger Things' actor Sean Astin in the energetic action comedy about a realtor with a secret history as a hitman.

"He doesn't look threatening in the beginning, he's only a bada** when the situation calls for it.

"And also (he's) an action hero that is not afraid to get emotional, to share his feelings. That was really exciting to me. And, of course, getting this opportunity to play Marvin Gable, my first time ever as a leading man, was amazing."