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Despite the years – and the distance of miles – true friends will always recognize each other. That’s what happened at the D23 Expo in September when Ke Huy Quan met his childhood hero Harrison Ford, for the first time since they shared wild adventures as Short Round and Indiana Jones, respectively, in the blockbuster sequel in 1984, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. And the former child star’s heartfelt Instagram post revealing their 38-years-in-the-making reunion immediately went viral. “I love you Indy,” Quan wrote, a Temple of Doom callback quote that ripped fans’ hearts out of their chests… OK, not literally.
Asked about the Indy-Short Round reunion in an interview about his upcoming Paramount+ series, 1923, Ford revealed to Yahoo Entertainment that the feeling was mutual. “It was great,” the once — and future — Indiana Jones says about his meet-up with his former kid sidekick. “He’s grown!”
As Quan said The New York Times in October, the fact that he was now an adult caused him to worry that Ford would not be able to put his face to the past years. “We’re in the green room [at D23] … and the person assigned to help me said, ‘Harrison Ford is right outside the greenroom. would you like to say hi?’ So I went out and saw him about 15 feet away….And as I walked closer, I was thinking, ‘Will he recognize me? The last time he saw me, I was young.'”
It turns out that Quan has no reason to worry. “He looked and pointed at me and said, ‘Are you Short Round?'” he said of the 80-year-old icon’s reaction to seeing him. “I was immediately transported back to 1984, when I was a little kid, and I said, ‘Yeah, Indy.’ And he said, ‘Come here,’ and gave me a big hug.”
Speaking to Yahoo Entertainment earlier this year, Quan recalled the fun times he shared with Ford at Temple of Doom set. “He was one of the most generous artists I’ve ever met,” Quan recalled. “And because it’s my first time [acting]he was always behind the camera helping Steven get that performance out of me.”
According to Quan, Ford helped him master life skills beyond acting. “When we were in Sri Lanka, we all stayed in the same hotel and every time we wrapped for the day, I would go swimming. I didn’t know how to swim then, and it was actually Harrison Ford who taught me! To this day, I thank him for that.”
Asked if he remembers being Quan’s swimming teacher while in Sri Lanka, Ford smiled and nodded. “I have many warm memories of working with him.”
Besides Temple of DoomQuan also starred in the ’80s favorite The Goonies before he quit acting due to the lack of opportunities for Asian actors in the American film industry at the time. “I remember reading a lot of scripts where the Asian character didn’t even have a name, or if they did, they would have two or three lines,” the Vietnamese-born actor said about those frustrating years, which prompted him to move to behind the camera. Over the next two decades, Quan performed in various crew roles — including stunt coordinator and assistant director — for both Hollywood and Hong Kong productions, including the 2001 Jet Li action vehicle The one and Wong Kar-wai’s acclaimed 2004 drama, 2046.
But this year, Quan finally returned to the big screen in a big way with Michelle Yeoh and Stephanie Hsu in the out of the box indie hit, Everything Everywhere Everything At Once. Released in March, the A24-released film exploded at the box office, grossing over $100 million worldwide and putting all three stars in the awards race. In fact, Quan just picked up the Best Supporting Performance trophy at the Gotham Awards, and is expected to be a top contender for the Oscar as well.
But Quan may consider his greatest honor this admiring review from his friend, Dr. Jones. “It’s a great movie,” Ford said Everything Everywhere Everything At Once. “It was great to see him, and to see his performance in the film.”
It’s destined that Short Round and Indy will reunite next Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, is that right? We hold our potatoes in anticipation.
1923 premieres December 18 on Paramount+
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