Love Hurts star Ke Huy Quan is finally getting the respect he deserves. Nearly 41 years after he debuted as Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Quan is set to be honored in the iconic hand and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA.
There are only approximately 250 honorees who have been immortalized on Hollywood Blvd. with the hand and footprint ceremony, and it wasn’t until 1991 when Star Trek legend George Takei became the first Asian American to be given the honor.
The ceremony will take place on Monday, February 3rd, in advance of the release of Quan’s latest film, Love Hurts. The timing is perfect in that Love Hurts is Quan’s first true leading role in a major feature film. Given Quan’s infectious enthusiasm and how much he is adored by fans and costars, the ceremony is sure to have some wonderful moments.
Love Hurts premieres February 7, 2025 in theaters.
KE HUY QUAN TO BE IMMORTALIZED AT THE LEGENDARY TCL CHINESE THEATRE IMAX®WITH HAND AND FOOTPRINT CEREMONY TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THE NEW ACTION-COMEDY FROM 87NORTH, UNIVERSAL PICTURES’ |
| On Monday, February 3, Academy Award®-winning actor Ke Huy Quanwill have his hands and feet immortalized in cement at the legendary TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX® on Hollywood Blvd. Love Hurts arrives in theaters February 7 |
Universal City, Calif., January 22, 2025 — On Monday, February 3, at 10:30 A.M., Oscar® winner Ke Huy Quan will have his hands and feet immortalized in cement at an official ceremony at the legendary TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX® on Hollywood Blvd. to celebrate the release of Universal Pictures’ new 87North action comedy, Love Hurts. The ceremony will feature remarks from Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (the Daniels), the Academy Award®-winning directors of Everything Everywhere All at Once.
In Love Hurts (in theaters February 7), Quan, who earned an Academy Award® for his supporting performance in the 2022 Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, rockets into his first major leading man role as an unlikely hero, Marvin Gable, a seemingly mild-mannered realtor with a dark secret that he is desperate to leave behind. Spoiler alert: He won’t.
Quan’s performance is the latest triumph in a singular career dating to his first childhood acting role, four decades ago, as Short Round opposite Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). Following his feature debut, he went on to play Data opposite Josh Brolin, Martha Plimpton, and Sean Astin in the beloved adventure comedy The Goonies (1985), about a group of misfits who discover an ancient map and set out to find a legendary pirate’s long-lost treasure.
Following his early acting success, Quan next stepped behind the camera and worked on multiple film projects in Asia, including several with lauded filmmaker Wong Kar Wai. Putting his extensive martial arts training to use, Quan also served as a stunt choreographer for X-Men (2000) and The One (2001).
Quan returned to acting full time in 2022 with his unforgettable performance as Waymond, the good-natured husband to Michelle Yeoh’s unhappy laundress in the cultural phenomenon Everything Everywhere All at Once.Written and directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, the film centers on Yeoh’s aging Chinese immigrant who is swept up in a mind-bending adventure, where she alone can save what’s important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
For his supporting turn alongside Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu, Quan earned an Academy Award® as well as a Golden Globe, a Critics Choice Film Award, an Independent Spirit Award, the Hollywood Critics Association Award, and the Gotham Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance. Quan also made history as the first Asian man to win a Screen Actors Guild Award in the Best Supporting Actor Category for film. Everything Everywhere All at Oncewas the most decorated film at the 95th Oscars, with eleven nominations and seven wins, including Best Picture.
Quan ventured back into the multiverse in the second season of the Emmy nominated series Loki. Starring alongside Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson, Quan played Ouroboros, a.k.a O.B, a quirky-genius repairman for the Time Variance Authority. His scene-stealing performance earned him a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He also appeared opposite Daniel Wu and Michelle Yeoh on the award-winning series American Born Chinese as former child actor Jamie Yao.
The TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX® handprints-footprints tribute is the most selective of all Hollywood honors. Over the course of 95 years, only 250-plus such honors have been presented. Movie exhibitor Sid Grauman opened The Chinese in 1927 and launched the handprints-footprints ceremony a year later as a promotion to advertise his many premieres and first-run films. Among the first handprints and footprints were those of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
Notably, it wasn’t until 1991 that an Asian American actor first made a historic addition to the esteemed roster of Hollywood icons who have imprinted their hands and feet at the TCL Chinese IMAX®, when George Takei joined the list alongside his Star Trek co-stars. Since then, a select group of Asian and Asian American actors and filmmakers have been honored, including actors Jackie Chan and James Hong and directors John Woo and Justin Lin.
On February 3, Quan will join a list of Hollywood acting luminaries that includes Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Humphry Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, Steve McQueen, Sidney Poitier and Jack Nicholson.
In 87North’s Love Hurts, directed by Jonathan Eusebio and produced by 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, Quan stars as realtor Marvin Gable opposite Oscar® winner Ariana DeBose, Daniel Wu, Marshawn “Beastmode” Lynch, Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipton, Rhys Darby, André Eriksen and Sean Astin.
87North is the undisputed champion creator of high-octane, groundbreaking action films, including the global hits Nobody, Violent Night, Bullet Train, Atomic Blonde and The Fall Guy.
About the TCL Chinese Theatres
Since 1927, The TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX has been the home of the most important, star powered red carpet movie premieres and special events, where Hollywood’s biggest and brightest talents have come to watch their movies. The most famous movie theatre on the globe is world-renowned for its unique forecourt of the stars, featuring cement hand and footprints of major movie stars, from Marilyn Monroe to Brad Pitt, and numerous stars from all eras of Hollywood. In 2013, the main theatre was relaunched as the world’s largest IMAX® theatre.
About Love Hurts
No matter how hard you try, you can’t break up with your past.
This Valentine’s Day, Oscar® winner Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Loki) rockets into his first major leading man role as an unlikely hero, a seemingly mild-mannered realtor with a dark secret that he is desperate to leave behind. Spoiler alert: He won’t.
From 87North—producers of the groundbreaking action films Nobody, Violent Night, Bullet Train, Atomic Blonde and The Fall Guy—comes a visceral, high-octane story of wrath and revenge.
Quan stars as Marvin Gable, a realtor working the Milwaukee suburbs, where “For Sale” signs bloom. Gable receives a crimson envelope from Rose (Oscar® winner Ariana DeBose; West Side Story, Argylle), a former partner-in-crime that he had left for dead. She’s not happy.
Now, Marvin is thrust back into a world of ruthless hitmen, filled with double-crosses and open houses turned into deadly warzones. With his brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu; Tomb Raider, Warcraft), a volatile crime lord, hunting him, Marvin must confront the choices that haunt him and the history he never truly buried.
The film features a killer soundtrack and impressive and diverse cast that includes former NFL running back and Super Bowl champion Marshawn “Beastmode” Lynch (Bottoms, 80 for Brady), Mustafa Shakir (Emancipation, Luke Cage), Lio Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love., Lucy), Rhys Darby (Jumanji: The Next Level, Yes Man), André Eriksen (Violent Night, The Trip) and Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Perry Mason).
Produced by 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, Love Hurts is written by Matthew Murray (Sheltered, CloudStreet: Soaring the American West) & Josh Stoddard (Warrior, Kaleidoscope) and Luke Passmore (Archenemy, Slaughterhouse Rulez). Guy Danella (Violent Night) is also producing. The executive producer is Ben Ormand.
Making his feature film directing debut on Love Hurts is acclaimed veteran stunt coordinator and fight coordinator Jonathan Eusebio, whose credits include some of the greatest action films of the past decade including Black Panther, The Avengers, the John Wick films, The Matrix Resurrections, Violent Night, The Fall Guy and Deadpool 2.Eusebio also served as the second-unit director on Deadpool 2, Violent Night and Birds of Prey.
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