Ke Huy Quan Says Kevin Feige Reached Out to Him and Asked Him to Join the MCU
Golden Globe winning actor Ke Huy Quan was a big deal in the ‘80s, starring in two of the biggest hit films - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. His legacy lived on, and fans continued to love those movies over the years, so it was awesome when the actor got back into the acting game in 2022 and starred in the hit action/sci-fi/adventure Everything Everywhere All At Once.
He was fantastic in that movie, and one of the first people to take notice was Marvel President Kevin Feige. We reported four months ago from D23 that it had been announced that Quan was joining the cast of Loki Season 2 at Disney+, and now the actor tells the story of how it all went down.
In a recent interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via CB), Quan said:
"When our movie came out, the first phone call I got was from Kevin Feige. Who graciously asked me if I wanted to join the MCU and I called Jonathan and the gang, and I said, you know what, nobody wants to hire me except Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, The Daniels, and Kevin Feige. It's been incredible. 2022 is the year I will always remember because it's one of the happiest years of my life."
That’s so freaking cool! Your movie was just released, and you’re wondering how people are going to receive it, and you get a call from Kevin Feige asking you to join the MCU?! Now that’s some good feedback. Quan is like the epitome of quality over quantity, and I can’t wait to see everything else he chooses to be a part of.
He has already signed on to star in the Russo Brothers’ next flick, The Electric State, about “an orphaned teenager traverses the American West with a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother.” We will also see him re-team with co-star Michelle Yeoh later this year in the Disney series American Born Chinese, which “follows Jin Wang, an average teenager juggling his high school social life with his immigrant home life. When he meets a new foreign student at school even more worlds collide in Jin's life.”