Ke Huy Quan didn’t know who Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg were when he was thrown in “Temple of Doom”: ‘They were just guys’

• Ke Huy Quan was a Preteen when he was thrown in Indiana Jones and Doom Temple

• After flinging from Vietnam with his family as a child, he did not know who Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg were when he tried and filmed the film

• Quan fell in love with shopping when he finally saw the movie on the big screen on the premiere

It’s an almost incredible Hollywood story.

On the 3rd February -Pisode of Wtf with Marc MaronAt Oscar -Winner Ke Huy Quan looked back at his first movie, 1984’s Indiana Jones and Doom Temple. Though he worked with legends Harrison Ford and Steven SpielbergQuan, 53, Maron told him he didn’t do who they were when he tried the movie.

Quan was born in Vietnam, and at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, he and his family fled to Hong Kong before gaining access to the United States and settling in the Los Angeles area. One day Quan told Maron, 61, a casting director came to school. “I see all these children who audition for this movie, which I know nothing about,” he remembered.

Quan’s brother tried and he felt. He looked at the manuscript sides but could “barely read them.” When it was his brother’s turn, he said, “I thought he could do better, so I gave him direction as if I was an instructor … I just said him about being scared and having more energy. I was like throwing these directions on him. “

The Casting director noticed him and got him audition. Although he stumbled over the lines, the casting director saw something in him and they chatted. Years later Quan heard that as soon as he went out, Casting called -Director Spielberg and producer George Lucas And told them he had found the child they had been looking for. “From that day and in the future my life has changed,” Quan said.

The film production called Quan’s house and sent a car to drive him and his mother to the studio. The first time he wore an “unpleasant” suit, but the second time he went to the studio, he usually wore clothes. “And I went into the room and there was George Lucas, Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg,” he remembered.

“It was pretty crazy. And to believe that only four years before it was when I came hit like a refugee … and suddenly I find myself on a set with basically the biggest filmmakers on the planet and the biggest film star on the planet. “

Not so Quan had any idea who they were. “I didn’t know I was in a big thing,” he said. He had never seen Star Wars or Raiders of the Lost Ark. “So to me they were just guys,” he said. “And I think my lack of knowledge about who they are made me really comfortable because there were no bets for me.”

During this first meeting, Spielberg had improvised the card game Indiana and Quan’s character, Short Round, attended during the film. They also read a few scenes from the manuscript.

“For me it was,” oh, these guys are really friendly, really lovely, “Quan remembered. Soon he was in wardrobe fittings. “And I still didn’t know I made a sequel to the biggest movie in 1982,” he said. His mother had a better idea and was “very proud” of him.

They shot in Sri Lanka for three weeks and then finished filming over five months in London. “I look at that movie now, and I’m still surprised because I had no previous acting experience, never been on a movie set before, and I look at that performance, and I said,” yes, it’s pretty good, “he said. He credit Spielberg for being “so good with children” because he is “just a child himself.” When he wanted a “good take”, Spielberg High-Fem would.

When the movie was over, Quan went back to school. “The very first time I looked at myself on screen was on the premiere of 1,400 people,” he remembered. “I thought it was incredible. I couldn’t believe it was me up there on screen and you can understand why I fell in love with trading right away. “

Quan continued to play in 1985s The GOONES. However for years, He struggled to find work As an adult.

In 2023, he won an Oscar for his role in All everywhere at onceand last October He told people he is still adjusting to the changes his success has brought.

“Everything that has happened in the last two years, I’m still used to it,” he said. “Ever since I won Oscar, that tale is slowly changing. I feel like I might belong here, maybe I can do this, and it’s heading towards that direction. “Quan next stars in The new movie Love hurtsthat hits theaters 7 February.

Quan and Ford, 82, too reunited for the first time in decades of 2022.

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