With an unprecedented onscreen comeback underneath his belt, Ke Huy Quan has one dream position he hopes to get to quickly.
The Oscar winner just lately revealed he desires “to play a foul man,” utilizing the 007 franchise and Hugh Grant’s latest efficiency in Heretic as inspirations for the kind of villainous position he’s manifesting.
“I might like to play a foul man. Like a Bond villain. Or the type of factor Hugh Grant does in Heretic,” he informed Empire, including: “I need to exit of my consolation zone and simply play this diabolical, actually unhealthy man. That might be a whole lot of enjoyable.”
Quan additionally defined that he’d prefer to enterprise past the style after years of choreographing stunts and fights for movies like X-Males (2000) and The One (2001).
“I don’t need to be perceived as an motion star,” stated Quan. “I hope I’m perceived as an actor who does motion nicely. So I’m going to take it one step at a time. One of the best half about being an actor is, you get to play a wide range of completely different characters. I like [Loki‘s] Ouroboros as a result of he’s so completely different than [EEAAO‘s] Waymond, and Waymond is so completely different than [Love Hurts‘] Marvin Gable.”
Following his Oscar and Golden Globe-winning efficiency in The whole lot All over the place All at As soon as (2022), Quan can subsequent be seen as retired hitman-turned-realtor Marvin Gable within the Jonathan Eusebio-helmed Common motion thriller Love Hurts, premiering Feb. 7.
Quan has additionally been forged within the upcoming Lionsgate motion thriller Fairytale in New York, from director Jalmari Helander, which stars the actor as an unassuming cab driver who goes after a gang of criminals on Christmas Eve to retrieve his youngsters’s stolen Christmas presents.
