‘Nobody Wants to Hire Me’: How Ke Hui Quan Struggled to Join Marvel

“Mom, I just won an Oscar!” Ke Hui Quan’s emotion will remain one of the main moments of the 95th Academy Awards, which was marked by the multiverse triumph of seven statuette winners all everywhere at once.

A hugely exciting return to the fore was made to a standing ovation from across Hollywood, including Steven Spielberg, who made it with Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom and The Goonies.

Also in a historic streak, Ke Hui Kuan became the second Asian actor to win the statuette, 38 years after Hein S. Ngor was crowned in 1985 for Thear. Ke Hui Kuan has been off the screens since the 90s, a stunt and fight choreographer, mainly because he couldn’t find interesting roles due to his background.

Kevin Feige’s call

A guest two months ago in January 2023 by Josh Horowitz on his podcast happy sad confusedKe Hui Quan recounted how the film, the first from A24 Studios to cross $100 million worldwide, allowed him to personally connect with Kevin Feige in the MCU, in this case Loki Season 2.

“When our movie came out, the first phone call I got was from Kevin Feige, who asked me if I wanted to join the MCU. Then I called Jonathan and the whole gang and said, ‘You know what? no one Wants to hire me in addition to Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Danes and Kevin Feige. This is incredible!’ 2022 is a year I will always remember because it is one of the happiest years of my life.”

Years of hardship

And in the process his struggling years in Hollywood. I remember doing Indiana Jones 2 in 1984 and The Goonies in 1985. Then I got on the CBS TV show in 1986. Then the roles got smaller and the opportunities were rarer. Before that, I waited for a year and a half. Getting a job.

And if you look at my resume, some of those jobs were really small, very menial, so I’d wait a year and a half, work a week, and wait another year to come out again. “