With an unprecedented onscreen comeback under his belt, Ke Huy Quan has one dream role he hopes to get to soon.
The Oscar winner recently revealed he wants “to play a bad guy,” using the 007 franchise and Hugh Grant’s recent performance in Heretic as inspirations for the type of villainous role he’s manifesting.
“I would love to play a bad guy. Like a Bond villain. Or the kind of thing Hugh Grant does in Heretic,” he told Empire, adding: “I want to go out of my comfort zone and just play this diabolical, really bad guy. That would be a lot of fun.”
Quan also explained that he’d like to venture beyond the genre after years of choreographing stunts and fights for films like X-Men (2000) and The One (2001).
“I don’t want to be perceived as an action star,” said Quan. “I hope I’m perceived as an actor who does action well. So I’m going to take it one step at a time. The best part about being an actor is, you get to play a variety of different characters. I love [Loki‘s] Ouroboros because he’s so different than [EEAAO‘s] Waymond, and Waymond is so different than [Love Hurts‘] Marvin Gable.”
Following his Oscar and Golden Globe-winning performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Quan can next be seen as retired hitman-turned-realtor Marvin Gable in the Jonathan Eusebio-helmed Universal action thriller Love Hurts, premiering Feb. 7.
Quan has also been cast in the upcoming Lionsgate action 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 children’s stolen Christmas presents.
