When Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan hugged Harrison Ford at the Academy Awards after his film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” won Best Picture, it was more than just a celebration of one movie’s victory. 

The teary embrace was an emotional reunion with Ford, his co-star in 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” — as seen here in rare, behind-the-scenes images by photographer Eva Sereny.

“Temple of Doom,” in which Quan played Indy’s chatty side-kick Short Round, was his first film as an actor. He was just 12 and superstar Ford was 40 in the movie that gave Quan his start in Hollywood.

“When he opened that envelope and read the title, it made our win for Best Picture even more special. And when I ran up onstage, I pointed at him and he pointed back at me and I gave him a hug,” Quan told Variety of the special moment.

“I just couldn’t help myself. I just want to shower this man with all my love. I gave Harrison Ford a big kiss on the cheek.”

While Quan made several films in the 1980s and ’90s — including “The Goonies” and “Encino Man” — he had trouble finding work in Hollywood after his early success.

“Everything Everywhere” marked the first major role in 20 years for the actor, now 51, and after he left the stage with his Best Supporting Actor Oscar, his “Temple of Doom” director Steven Spielberg congratulated him.

“After I won, I went up to Steven, Steven Spielberg … who gave me my first opportunity,” he told Good Morning America.

“And then he gave me a big hug and he says, ‘Ke, you are now an Academy Award-winning actor.'”

But before that he was Short Round, palling around with Ford and actress Cate Capshaw, now Spielberg’s wife, on an adventure of a lifetime.

Photographer Sereny, who was hired to document the behind-the-scenes goings-on during filming of the first three “Indiana Jones” films, captured many magical moments in these rarely seen pictures.

Shot in Sri Lanka, Sereny’s intimate portraits show Harrison and a young Quan embracing, horsing around and riding elephants.

“Of course, working on a Spielberg movie is something very special,” wrote Sereny, who died in 2021, in her book “Through Her Lens: The Stories Behind the Photography of Eva Sereny.”

“Just seeing Steven direct is fascinating. He has every shot completely worked out and under control.”

Ford will star in the fifth “Indiana Jones” film, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” out June 30.

Quan will not be in the latest installment, though he was “secretly hoping” he would.

“But honestly, Steven [Spielberg] has given me so much — not one movie, but two movies,” Quan told Variety.

“And they were the first ones to put an Asian face in a big Hollywood movie.”