Harrison Ford Reacts to Indiana Jones Costar Ke Huy Quan’s Oscar Nod

When you movie a automotive chase collectively, you are bonded perpetually!

Harrison Ford saluted his former Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom costar Ke Huy Quan for his Oscar nomination this week — the star’s newest milestone following the success of his comeback movie Every thing In all places All at As soon as.

“I’m so happy for him. He is an amazing man,” Ford, 80, informed Leisure Tonight on the premiere of his new Apple TV+ collection Shrinking.

“He is an exquisite actor. He was when he was slightly child, and he nonetheless is,” he added. “I am glad. I am very glad for him.”

Ford and Quan, 51, final acted collectively within the second movie within the Indiana Jones franchise, the place Ford performed the titular position and Quan performed the younger Brief Spherical.

When requested if an on-screen reunion is feasible between the celebs, Ford informed ET“That’d be nice.”

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The duo previously reunited in September 2022 when Quan shared a candy picture of himself and Ford on Instagram throughout Disney’s D23 Expo. Ford attended the occasion to advertise the upcoming Indiana Jones movie, whereas Quan was invited for his position in season 2 of Loki.

Quan later detailed the encounter to The New York Instancestelling the outlet that his coronary heart was “pounding” as he approached Ford and thought, “Is he gonna acknowledge me? The final time he noticed me, I used to be slightly child.”

Ford, Quan mentioned, ended up taking a look at him together with his “traditional, well-known, grumpy Harrison Ford look” earlier than recognizing him.

“I’m going, ‘Oh my gosh, he in all probability thinks I am a fan and he is gonna inform me to not come close to him.’ However he appears to be like and factors at me and says, ‘Are you Brief Spherical?’ Instantly, I used to be transported again to 1984, once I was slightly child, and I mentioned, ‘Sure, Indy.’ And he mentioned, ‘Come right here,’ and gave me an enormous hug,” Quan detailed.

The nice and cozy embrace got here many years after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was launched in Could 1984, kicking off the profession of Quan earlier than he appeared within the ’80s traditional The Goonies.

After receiving the Best Supporting Actor nod for his position in Every thing In all places All at As soon as earlier this month, Quan spoke with The Hollywood Reporter concerning the significance of the movie’s 11 nominations, and his personal first-time nomination as properly. He referred to as the second “an incredible day.”

“After I heard my title introduced, I jumped and I screamed so loud. It was similar to the day once I obtained that decision from my agent and so they informed me that I get to play the position of Waymond. I simply can’t imagine it. For therefore a few years, I’ve all the time beloved watching the Oscars,” Quan mentioned.

“Yearly, I’d think about what it is prefer to stroll down the crimson carpet, to be in that room, to get nominated. It is a dream that solely existed in my creativeness for the longest time,” he continued. “After I needed to step away, that dream dissipated. It was so far-off that I did not suppose in the future it will make its approach again. And it did. And it occurred right this moment.”

The 2023 Academy Awards additionally marks essentially the most nominations for Asian actors in any yr of the ceremony, which Quan referred to as an enormous second “for the whole AAPI group.”

“It feels so nice for us to have the 11 nominations, and get all these appearing nominations,” he mentioned. “I hope that that is the start of extra to return. I hope that our whole group sees this and sees that is attainable transferring ahead. That is why illustration is so essential.”