Ke Huy Quan said Steven Spielberg convinced him to star in 'Love Hurts,' after the actor initially thought he wasn't suited to play an action hero.

Spielberg directed a 12-year-old Quan opposite Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” They celebrated the 2023 awards season together, with Quan in the race for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and Spielberg for “The Fabelmans.”

Ke Huy Quan revealed in a new interview that he didn't know who Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg were when he auditioned for 'Temple of Doom,' and he hadn't seen 'Star Wars' or 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Actor Ke Huy Quan admitted he almost gave up working on action films halfway through shooting Love Hurts, but refound his love again after watching the final edit. Quan plays a successful estate agent whose life suddenly changes when he discovers his crime boss brother is hunting him.

It turns out that Ke Huy Quan actually turned down the offer to star in the upcoming action film Love Hurts twice, before he was convinced to do it by director Steven Spielberg. The two worked together on The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,

Eyed Willy's treasure together in The Goonies, Ke Huy Quan and Sean Astin are reuniting to sell some real estate in Universal Pictures and 87North's action-comedy, Love Hurts (in theaters this Friday;