Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan reveals his one condition to star in the 2025 comedy action movieLove Hurts. Quan won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of time-traveling husband Waymond Wang inEverything Everywhere All at Once.Love Hurtsrevolves around a familiar premise about an average nobody turning into an action hero.Quan plays a mild-mannered realtor, Marvin Gable,who’s a hitman hiding in plain sight.
In an exclusive interview withScreen Rant, Quan shared the one big condition to starring inLove Hurts. As a big fan of Hong Kong action movies in the ’80s, the actor found that era to be “really special” and part of the reason was actors like Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Jet Li performing their own stunts. WithLove Hurts,one thing he requested was to “do all the fights,” “every punch, every kick” by himself.He further teased that the comedy action movie has"a great action team." Check out what he said below:
Well, one of the things that we agreed upon when I came on board was I told them I love the action movies that came out of Hong Kong in the ’80s. There was something really special about that era, and also, there’s something really special when you may see it’s the actors doing the fights themselves, and it’s not a stunt double. You could clearly see if it was Jackie Chan, or Sammo Hung or Jet Li, it was all them doing it.
So, I told them, “Listen, if I’m going to do this, I want to do all the fights myself, every punch, every kick, I want to thrown them myself.” They go, “We love that.” I said, “Okay, but I need a lot of training because it’s been a long time since I’ve done this level of physical work.”
We have a great action team led by Can Aydin. And, of course, JoJo and David Leitch, and this is an 87North movie, so this is their expertise. I trained with the guys for three months, just getting myself in shape. And also, I know all the moves. It’s very familiar to me, but also, it’s familiarizing myself with those moves again.
Over the years, they’ve become muscle memory, but there’s a difference between what I imagine in my mind versus whether I can still do it or not, because I’m 53 years old. [Chuckles] Luckily — and it’s something that I’m very proud about — I was able to do everything myself. So, that was really cool.
What This Means For Love Hurts
Ke Huy Quan Is Doing All The Stunts Himself
Quan is following in Tom Cruise’s footsteps by performing the stunts by himself. However, that doesn’t come as a surprise since the Oscar winnerworked as a stunt coordinator during the late 1990s, especially for the first movieX-Men. The actor mentioned that this was because, at the time, he wasn’t getting much acting work, so he resorted to positions as a stunt coordinator and assistant director.
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Not using a stunt double meant that Quan had to transform himself into a semi-real fighter to pull off the physical demands of the hitman role. It also means that all the fight scenes will be as authentic, with theLove Hurtstraileralready showing the intense efforts in performing those stunts.Quan’s comment confirms that he didn’t use a stunt double in the film. He took a similar approach when filming the martial arts fights inEverything Everywhere All At Once,in which he also didn’t use a stunt double for scenes like the fanny pack.
Our Take on Love Hurts
We’re Hooked
With a promising premise that nearly never goes wrong,Love Hurtsis going to be pretty fun. The idea of a hitman being hunted by his ex-partner-in-crime, who is looking for revenge due to their fallout, is full of comedic tension and action intrigue. Quan’s casting certainly sparked fans' interest along with his fellow Oscar-winner,WestSide Storystar Ariana DeBose, who also stars in the lead role.Now that Quan is quoting the heavy hitters in the ’80s Hong Kong action movies as inspirations for his fight scenes — we need to watch this.
Coming out on Valentine’s Day and from the producers ofNobodyandViolent Night,John Wickstunt coordinator Jonathan Eusebio’s directorial debut is full of promise. While the release date is relatively early in the year,Love Hurtsis easily one of the most highly-anticipated films in 2025.
