While Ke Huy Quan has relaunched his acting career in recent years with movies and TV shows like Everything Everywhere All at Once, Loki and Zootopia 2, many still know him best for playing Short Round in 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Alas, that was the only time we saw Indy hanging out the child sidekick, but it thankfully wasn’t the last time Quan and Harrison Ford ran into each other. The two had a heartwarming reunion at D23 in 2022, and Quan admitted that even he was surprised by how it went down.
The fan account @indianajonesnews shared Ke Huy Quan’s account of how this encounter happened, which he spoke about around the time that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was coming out. While some of these celebrity reunions are planned ahead of time, Quan and Harrison Ford’s happened purely because of serendipitous timing, as you’ll read in the post below:
