You’d be hard-pressed to discover a star who radiates as a lot constructive vitality as Ke Huy Quan – from his ebullient younger performances in The Goonies and Temple Of Doom, to his heart-swelling Oscar-winning flip in All the things All over the place All At As soon as, to his affable efficiency in Loki Season 2. However past his impending fight-fuelled action-comedy Love Hurts, Quan has a want to play towards sort. Sure, the friendliest man in Hollywood desires to see if being dangerous actually does really feel fairly good.
“I might love to play a foul man. Like a Bond villain,” Quan tells Empire in a significant new interview within the 28 Years Later difficulty. “Or the sort of factor Hugh Grant does in Heretic.” The more serious he can go, the higher. “I wish to exit of my consolation zone and simply play this diabolical, actually dangerous man,” he laughs. “That may be loads of enjoyable.” Somebody get him a fluffy white Blofeld cat, stat.
For Quan, as he strikes past his Oscar-winning comeback as Waymond in Daniels’ multiversal masterpiece, he plans to maintain displaying all of the completely different shades and colors that that movie was in a position to showcase. Whereas Love Hurts will show his mastery of martial arts (for years, Quan labored behind-the-scenes on motion choreography, together with on 2000’s X-Males), he desires to maintain displaying extra. “I don’t wish to be perceived as an motion star,” he explains. “I hope I’m perceived as an actor who does motion effectively. So I’m going to take it one step at a time. The most effective half about being an actor is, you get to play quite a lot of completely different characters. I like [Loki’s] Ouroboros as a result of he’s so completely different than [EEAAO’s] Waymond, and Waymond is so completely different than [Love Hurts’] Marvin Gable.” Let the cinematic multiverse unfold.
Learn Empire’s full new Ke Huy Quan interview – speaking his Oscar success, his love of motion motion pictures, and the place his profession goes subsequent – within the 28 Years Later difficulty, on sale now. Order a duplicate on-line right here. Love Hurts involves UK cinemas on 7 February.
