Academy Award-winner Ke Huy Quan (The Goonies, Everything Everywhere All at Once) is returning to the big screen after his Oscar win and his appearance in Loki season 2. The trailer has been released for his action flick, Love Hurts, in which he stars opposite fellow Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story).
The movie is helmed by veteran stunt coordinator, fight coordinator, and second unit director JoJo Eusebio, making his feature directorial debut from a script written by Luke Passmore, Josh Stoddard and Matthew Murray.
In the film, Quan plays “an unlikely hero, a seemingly mild-mannered realtor with a dark secret.” Milwaukee realtor Marvin Gable is “thrust back into a world of ruthless hitmen, filled with double-crosses and open houses turned into deadly warzones,” per the synopsis.
The character’s “volatile crime lord” brother Knuckles (played by Daniel Wu) forces Marvin to reunite with DeBose’s Rose to “confront the choices that haunt him and the history he never truly buried,” it concludes.
Quan told People Magazine of the role:
“When I first read the script, I was very confused. Even though I thought it was a good script, I thought it was written for somebody else. In fact, I even said, ‘You guys should be calling Jason Statham, not me.’”
But speaking to Eusebio and husband-and-wife producing team David Leitch and Kelly McCormick, Quan “realized that what they were trying to create was a new kind of action star, not what we have been accustomed to in the last few decades,” he explains, adding:
“They wanted someone who can have a range, who’s not afraid to be vulnerable. And at the same time, he doesn’t look like a badass until the situation calls for it. I always fantasized about being the number one on the call sheet or putting myself in the shoes of the leading man.”
Quan added that Love Hurts is “the perfect movie” to do so.
“I never thought that I would one day be the lead actor in a major studio picture. So it is an incredible feeling.”
I just love Ke Huy Quan. He is such a great actor, and just seems like a very cool and joyful person. I am so looking forward to seeing Love Hurts on the big screen. Check out the awesome trailer below, and watch Love Hurts in theaters on February 7, 2025.
