After years of having “fantasized” about starring in action films, Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan is finally fulfilling that dream with Universal Pictures’ forthcoming Love Hurts, which he revealed he passed up a couple times before Steven Spielberg convinced him otherwise.
In a new cover story with Empire, the Everything Everywhere All At Once star explained he didn’t feel that he had the “look” of an action hero and was initially self-conscious about taking the role. “When I read it, I thought, ‘Wait, this is not for me.
Why are you asking me?’ I was so confused. I thought it was written for somebody like Jason Statham, because I’ve been conditioned to think that when you have an action star, he needs to look like The Rock or Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
I didn’t think anybody that looks like me could star in this role,” he said. Fortunately, he said the film’s creators — which includes John Wick stunt extraordinaire-turned-helmer Jonathan Eusebio — asked for him a third time, and it was at an event with Spielberg that history took its course. “He was asking me, ‘Ke, how are you doing?’ I said, ‘Steven, I’m not doing so well.’ Because of all the love and support that I had gotten during that whole award season, I was so worried that whatever I was going to do next, I would disappoint.
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