SUMMER STARS

It happens every year. Certain summer films give certain actors a chance to bloom. But what happens once the warm weather ends? We checked in on a decade’s worth of summer stars to see what’s happened since.

1984: KE HUY QUAN IN ‘INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM’

Steven Spielberg changed Ke Huy Quan’s life when he picked him from an open casting call, held in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, and cast him as Harrison Ford’s sidekick in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”

Huy Quan, now 14, came to the United States from Saigon with his family in 1979. His role of Short Round in “Indiana Jones” (the sequel to “Raiders of the Lost Ark”) was his first. “Before ‘Indiana Jones,’ I was thinking I wanted to be a doctor,” Huy Quan said.

The Spielberg-produced “The Goonies” marked his second film (Huy Quan played Data). Next up is the fall CBS series, “Together We Stand,” in which he’s one of the adoptive kids of Elliott Gould and Dee Wallace.

“Acting is so fun and you get to meet a lot of famous people,” said Huy Quan, who added that he and Spielberg are “still buddies.” Huy Quan even sometimes calls Spielberg for advice--and he thinks of him as a role model. Explained Huy Quan: “I hope in 10 years I will be acting, directing and producing.”