Steven Spielberg convinced Ke Huy Quan to recite in love after refusing him

It turns out Ke huy quan He actually refused the offer to act in the next action film Love hurts Twice, before being convinced of doing it by director Steven Spielberg.

The two worked together on the Goonies and Indiana Jones and on the Temple of Doom, and how much he thought he had the appearance of an action hero, and he felt self -conscious in taking the job.

During an interview with Empire, how much he explained: “When I read it, I thought: ‘Wait, this is not for me. Why do you ask me? I was so confused.

“I thought it was written for someone like Jason Statham, because I was conditioned to think that when you have an action star, he needs to look like rock or stallion or Schwarzenegger. I didn’t think anyone who resembles could play in this role. “

He continued to talk about his conversation with Spielberg, saying: “He was asking me:” Ke, how are you? “I said:” Steven, I’m not going so well. “Because of all the love and support I had achieved throughout the prize season.

“I was so worried that whatever I would do later, I would disappoint. So I had problems choosing my next project. Steven was very generous. He said: “Ke, let’s lunch.”

“And I talked to him about this project and somehow I launched it. He said: ‘Ke, it’s fantastic. Foul. ‘I entered and had these slides really elaborated with me as the main character.

“It was then that I started seeing it differently. ‘Oh, they are trying to create a different type of action hero. It is not the type we have seen for decades, but something new. ‘”

So, when the creators of the film, who include John Wick Stunt, the director transformed into Jonathan Eusebio, asked him a third time and this time he accepted.

Quan trained for three months to do all his stunts and said: “But all the fists, all kicks, I launched myself. Every day I immersed myself in a salt bath for half an hour. It was very funny.

“But it was physically so demanding that in the middle of the filming, I said to my wife:” I don’t think I could do it again. “Then, when the trailer came out and I saw how beautiful it is, I said:” I don’t see the time to do it again “.

The film comes from the producers of revolutionary action films Nobody, Violent night, Atomic blonde, The autumn boyAnd it is described as a “visceral history and high level of anger and revenge”.

Quan acts like Marvin Gable, “a real estate agent who works on the outskirts of Milwaukee, where the signs” for sale “flourish. He receives a crimson envelope from Rose (Ariana Debose), a former partner-in crime he had left for dead. Not He is happy.

“Now, Marvin has returned to a world of ruthless Hitmen, full of double crossings and open houses transformed into a mortal Warzone. With his brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu), a volatile lord of the crime, which hunt him, face the choices that persecute him and the story that has never really buried. “

The cast also includes the cast includes Ariana Debose, Daniel Wu, Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipon, RHYS DARBY, Marshawn LynchAND André Eriksen.

Love hurts He hits cinemas on February 7th.