New Photo and Details About Ke Huy Quan's Character TVA Tech Expert OB From LOKI Season 2

We’ve got a first look photo and some new details about Ke Huy Quan’s character from the upcoming second season of Marvel’s Loki. The Disney+ series is furthering the story of Loki, the God of Mischief, played by Tom Hiddleston, and his new friends, Owen Wilson's Mobius, and Sophia Di Martino's Sylvie, while they investigate the mysterious Time Variance Authority, uncovering dark secrets along the way.

Academy Award-winning Quan (The Goonies, Everything Everywhere All At Once) is taking on the role of TVA tech expert OB.

The new season finds Loki and Mobius trekking into the deepest bowels of the TVA, seeking help from Quan's quirky repair guy. OB works in the repairs and advancement department, and his office is stuffed in the basement, a sprawling mishmash of gadgets and gizmos.

Loki Executive producer Kevin Wright tells EW:

"His job is basically every piece of tech, every computer, every thing that is running at the TVA. He either designed it, or he fixes it and keeps it running."

Wright told EW it was celebrated Marvel casting director Sarah Halley Finn who first suggested Quan for the role in Loki, having caught an early screening of his award-winning comeback film, Everything Everywhere All at Once. It was April, and Everything Everywhere was about to open wide across the country, so Marvel scrambled to make Quan an offer immediately — knowing that his schedule was about to fill up. Wright explained:

"I think Kevin Feige made a call maybe April 12, just to follow up and say, 'Please, please do this,'" Wright says with a laugh. "Little did we know, Ke is apparently already a giant Marvel fan and was a big fan of Loki season 1."  

EW spoke to Quan in August 2022, immediately after his Loki role was first revealed at Disney's D23 Expo. Stepping offstage, the giddy actor admitted that he'd been keeping the role secret even from his family.

"I've been fantasizing about this for many, many years, all the way back to when the first Iron Man came out. I saw all the movies in the theaters. I've seen all the films. I constantly watch on YouTube how passionate and enthusiastic these fans are. So to be up on stage today with Sophia and Tom and Owen and Kevin and to be on the receiving end of that… it's just been incredible."

We are as excited to have Quan as part of the Marvel family as he is to be a part of it! Season 2 of Loki is premiering on October 6th on Disney+.