Actor Ke Huy Quan says kids now want pet snakes thanks to his Zootopia 2 role

The American star voices pit viper Gary De'Snake in the hit animated sequel that is now streaming on Disney+. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NEW YORK – Ke Huy Quan’s first acting job came at age 12, when he played the precocious sidekick Short Round in the adventure film Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom (1984).

The role forever linked him to Indiana Jones, the whip-cracking archaeologist – played by Hollywood actor Harrison Ford – who famously hates snakes.

And so did Quan – which makes his role in the animated hit movie Zootopia 2 (2025), where he voices the friendly snake Gary, a small cosmic joke.

“I never thought I would get to play the animal that Indiana Jones feared the most,” the Vietnamese-American star says at a screening in New York earlier in 2026.

Now streaming on Disney+, the sequel to the 2016 blockbuster Zootopia returns to a bustling metropolis where prey and predator live side by side.

Quan voices Gary De’Snake, a pit viper on the run from rabbit Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), two officers from Zootopia’s police department.