Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan has shared his next dream role, ahead of the upcoming theatrical release of Universal Pictures’ action thriller on February 7, 2025.
This serves as his first major leading man project after the critical success of Everything Everywhere All at Once. In a recent interview, Quan has expressed his desire to play a villain in his next potential project, after being known for his funny and nice guy roles.
He revealed that he’s open to any kind of bad guy characters because he’s ready to go out of his comfort zone. “I would love to play a bad guy.
Like a Bond villain,” Quan said (via Empire). “Or the kind of thing Hugh Grant does in Heretic. I want to go out of my comfort zone and just play this diabolical, really bad guy,” he laughs. “That would be a lot of fun.” Love Hurts is directed by veteran stunt and fight coordinator JoJo Eusebio from a screenplay written by Matthew Murray, Josh Stoddard, and Luke Passmore.
The film also stars Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Daniel Wu (Tomb Raider), Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch (Bottoms), Mustafa Shakir (Emancipation), Lio Tipton (Lucy), Rhys Darby (Jumanji: The Next Level), André Eriksen (Violent Night) and Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings trilogy).