Owen Wilson on Ke Huy Quan Joining LOKI: People Will "Love His Character"
It was pretty cool to learn that Everything Everywhere All At Once star Ke Huy Quan was going to be jumping into the MCU. He was cast in Loki Season 2, and we got a first look at him in the series in a teaser trailer released at D23. It seems to be playing a TVA archivist.
During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight Loki star Owen Wilson talked about seeing Ke Huy Quan win all the awards and then teased that fans are going to love his character in Loki:
“I know. It’s so exciting. That was incredible. Every time I saw him winning something, it was another speech that just kind of was a tearjerker that was so moving. And even when we were working on this last summer — I think his character that he plays in Loki Season 2 — I think people will be excited, even though that was so great, obviously, the character that he won an Oscar for, I think people are going to love his character in this.”
Quan previously talked about what it was like for him to the Marvel franchise:
"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."
The actor also shared a fun experience about working with Tom Hiddleston on the highly anticipated Marvel project:
“There was one particular day of shooting, and [Tom] found something on set, He saw it and he said, ‘Oh my gosh, I cannot believe I am working with Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and he was so cute and so kind, and I was so excited and I said, ‘Oh my god, did anybody get that on tape! Please tell me somebody got that on tape!’ He was incredible. We laughed so hard, and I didn’t want that shoot to end.”
Quan, who recently took home an Oscar, is also set to star in the Russo Brothers’ 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.”
He will also re-team with Everything Everywhere All at Once co-star Michelle Yeoh 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.”
Hiddleston has discussed continuing Loki’s redemptive story arc in Season 2, saying: “I understand the audience sees good in Loki — they want him to get past his internal and external obstacles. They want him to repair that relationship with his brother and step into the hero that he can be. He realizes, ‘Actually, I can choose my path and choose to do the right thing. Or I choose, at least, not to repeat the same old tricks that I repeated over and over in a cycle of trust and betrayal. It’s exciting to retain all the characteristics that makes Loki, Loki, and at the same time to play slightly different music within him.”
Director Kate Herron and head writer Michael Waldron are coming back to work on Loki Season 2 alniong with head writer and executive producer Eric Martin. Moon Knight directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson are also set to helm episodes of the series. The whole cast from Season 1 will be back in action.
Hiddleston will once again be joined by Owen Wilson as Mobius, Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15, Jonathan Majors as Kang, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer, Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie, and Tara Strong as Miss Minutes.