The filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom may be an unbelivable 42 years ago, but the memories have never faded for us, and for for star Ke Huy Quan who out on the promotion trail for his new action rom-com Love Hurts, remembers a key scene from that first Indy prequel which saw Harrison Ford assure the young actor.
Quan, now 53, also recalls Ford consoling him while filming that frightening sequence, which sees Ford’s titular explorer and Quan’s sidekick character, Short Round, chart an escape from the Temple of Doom. “When we shot this sequence, I was so scared,” shares Quan. “And I cried. I remember Harrison Ford kneeling down in front of me and asking me if I was okay.”
Continues Quan, “He said, and I’ll never forget this, ‘Ke, I want you to remember, I will never hurt you.’ When he said that, oh my gosh, it just made me love him so much more. Here is Indiana Jones telling me that he’s gonna take care of me.”
The actor credits the film, which marked his first Hollywood role, for his love of the action genre. “I remember watching it for the first time at our premiere, seeing it put together with sound effects and music for the first time,” recalls Quan. “I was blown away by all of it. I was only 13 then. It made me fall in love with action.”
