Harrison Ford really seems to care about Indiana Jones, and it’s infectious

polygon.com:

The first time I went to the cinema without a supervising adult was to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in 1984. I was 10 years old. The scene in which someone had their still-beating heart ripped from their chest was a bit more than I had bargained for! I would also later realize that the film trades in appalling racist stereotypes. Nevertheless, I still felt a strong, emotional pang of nostalgia when I saw a certain photo circulating on social media this past weekend.

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The photo, taken backstage at Disney’s D23 Expo, shows Ke Huy Quan, who played plucky kid Short Round in Temple of Doom, embracing Harrison Ford. Quan was there because he’s been cast in season 2 of Loki. Ford was there to show attendees the first footage from Indiana Jones 5. Quan sports his usual cheeky grin, while Ford, clasping Quan round the shoulders, is beaming with undisguised joy. Quan posted the photo to his Instagram with the caption, “Indiana Jones and Short Round reunited after 38 years.” Obviously, the internet fell in love with it.

This well of feeling is partly attributable Quan’s feelgood story: He gave up acting in the 1990s, but was catapulted back into the public imagination last year, at the age of 50, in Everything Everywhere All At Once. But mostly it’s stirred by the shock of the legendarily grumpy and publicity-averse 80-year-old screen icon Ford — whose on-screen range runs from “annoyed” to “amused, but slightly annoyed” to “very worried and also annoyed” — actually looking happy. In public. While doing press!

This was just the start. On stage, a shaky but twinkling Ford stunned the audience by being moved almost to tears as he thanked them for their support, predicted that this