Watch Ke Huy Quan as a Unassuming Killer in His First Post-Oscar Film

People moving successful income request a slayer instinct, but not similar this. In Love Hurts, Ke Huy Quan’s first diagnostic movie since winning an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once, helium plays a harmless, do-gooder existent property cause who is sucked backmost into his aged life. A beingness that progressive him being a stone-cold killer. And the archetypal trailer is here.

The directorial debut of JoJo Eusebio, the 2nd portion manager of Deadpool 2, Violent Night, and Birds of Prey (among many, galore different things), Love Hurts is the latest from 87 North. It’s the institution that brought you films similar John Wick, Nobody, Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train, and The Fall Guy, which is the nonstop vigor you get successful this trailer. Check it out.

Yes, that’s West Side Story Oscar victor Ariana DeBose arsenic Rose, the emotion interest/best person who plays a cardinal relation successful Quan’s quality leaving the beingness of crime. The supporting formed besides includes Daniel Wu (Warcraft) as the evil brother, shot prima turned histrion Marshawn Lynch (Bottoms), Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage), Lio Tipton (Lucy), Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, Our Flag Means Death), André Eriksen (Violent Night), and adjacent Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings).

Obviously though, this is each astir Quan, who seems to astir beryllium channeling his Everything Everywhere quality a spot here. Though helium appeared successful Loki, lent his dependable to Kung Fu Panda 4, and volition soon look successful the Russo Brothers’ The Electric State, Love Hurts is Quan’s archetypal quality backmost connected the large surface since winning his Oscar. So that it shares immoderate similarities astatine each is simply a spot odd. That unforgettable quality was a bittersweet antheral brought backmost to beingness by multiversal versions of himself. This is simply a antheral who is hiding his information successful bid to unrecorded a mean life, but is forced to fto it retired to prevention everything.

Then again, Love Hurts lets him beryllium the starring antheral successful a big-time enactment movie, thing he’s ne'er gotten to bash before. Something he’s uniquely trained to do, not conscionable due to the fact that of his acting skills, but his clip arsenic a combat and stunt coordinator. In a way, this is simply a portion Quan was calved to play. If Eusebio tin transmission conscionable a spot of that, this could beryllium a precise amusive mode to commencement of 2025.

Written by Matthew Murray, Josh Stoddard, and Luke Passmore, Love Hurts opens lone successful theaters connected February 7. Just successful clip for Valentine’s Day.

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