director James Mangold has explained why beloved character Short Round doesn’t appear in the franchise’s latest flick.
The action adventure movie hit screens this week, and sees , 80, return to his famous role which he first played all the way back in 1981.
While there’s in the, including , Mads Mikkelsen and Antonio Banderas, Short Round has not returned.
Seen in 1984’s Temple of Doom, the character was played by Ke Huy Quan, who took an acting hiatus before in the blockbuster 2022 movie Everything Everywhere All at Once.
His performance was praised, with the actor, 51, picking up a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for his role.
When the movie also won Best Picture at the Oscars, he was , who presented the award after which they embraced in a tearful hug.
While some people may have though there might be a chance Ke could be seen in the final Indiana Jones movie, it’s not the case, and now James has explained exactly why.
When asked whether he had considered revisiting the character, he said it hadn’t crossed his mind.
‘I already had my two grown-ups in the movie, so I was kind of… it didn’t occur to me,’ he said.
Even if he had wanted to, it likely would have proved difficult as Ke was filming at the time.
‘Certainly Ke was, I think, shooting Everything Everywhere All at Once while we were making this movie, so I kind of hadn’t anything to kind of call out to me and go, “This is who you should bring back”,’ Mangold said.
However he added that he was’ ‘thrilled when I saw that movie and saw [Ke] finding a voice in movies again as a grown-up actor – and in one obviously that was so profoundly successful, and talked to so many people,’ he added when speaking to .
As a child actor Ke rose to fame for his role in Indiana Jones, going on to play Data in 1985’s The Goonies.
Following some roles in the 1990s, he took an almost 20-year acting hiatus during which he worked as a stunt choreographer and assistant director.
While Harrison is hanging up his iconic hat, he recently said he had no.
Instead he explained he wanted to keep working because it helped him feel ‘useful’.
He also claimed he didn’t ‘do well’ when he hadn’t got any projects on the horizon.
When asked about the possibility of retirement, he admitted: ‘I don’t do well when I don’t have work. I love to work… I love to feel useful. It’s my Jones, I want to be helpful.’
The actor also said he loved the ‘intensity and intimacy of collaboration’ of working on a film set, he added when speaking to CNN host Chris Wallace, via Deadline.
