Early 2023

January 10, 2023
HAPPY SAD CONFUSED
Ke Huy Quan: "If Disney or Lucasfilm ever come to me and say, 'We want to do a Short Round spinoff,' I'm there man! I love that character so much and it would just be incredible to revisit so many years later. I have no idea where he is. Your guess is as good as mine. Just because he looks after Indy so much, I wouldn't be surprised if he was an archeologist."

January 10, 2023
VIRGIN RADIO
Toby Jones: "All I can say is that it's extraordinarily ambitious. I found the story very moving, which I wasn't expecting to find. If the script is reflected in the final film, then I think people will be really struck with that. It's quite an emotional film. You don't expect to work with these people and it was fantastic working with Harrison. He was very down to earth and an extraordinary 80 year old."

January 19, 2023
Deadline: Elena Saurel's credits include the upcoming Indiana Jones 5.

January 22, 2023
CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING
Harrison Ford: "I made the fifth Indiana Jones movie; now I got to go support its release."

January 24, 2023
DEADLINE
Steven Spielberg: "(I was) peripherally involved. I advocated the fifth movie in favor of hiring James Mangold. I'm going to let him make most of those decisions."

January 27, 2023
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT
Q: "Ke Huy Quan cameo in one of the future Indy films?"
Harrison Ford: "That's be great, be great."

January 27, 2023
DAILY MAIL
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "It's a dream come true to appear in an Indiana Jones movie - and to work alongside Harrison Ford. It was a very easy part to say yes to. Making the film was everything I could have hoped for, with a chance to work on my own stunts and action sequences. If the script said throw yourself on to the back of a vehicle, I threw myself on to the back of a vehicle!"

January 31, 2023
VARIETY
Harrison Ford: "I always wanted to do it. I wanted to do the rest of the story to see the end of his career. It's the last time for me."

January 31, 2023
FILMUMENTARIES PODCAST
Jean Bolte: "I just finished a project working on Indiana Jones, and luckily enough they pulled together a lot of us older people who've known each other. The vast majority of that tight crew had been working together for at least 20 years. I think we have some of that family feeling that we had in the model shop. Indiana Jones is going to be an interesting project when it's released because it's such a beloved series of movies. It's a real honor to work on a film that I know is going to be getting that much attention."

February 2, 2023
COLLIDER
Antonio Banderas: "It was beautiful to just be close to him. I remember the first time I saw Indiana Jones, and I flipped out. So just being there, it was beautiful. My character is very little. He's not a bad guy, he's a friend of Indiana, helping at some point in the movie. But it's not very big. Because of the COVID situation, (I was going) back to London, back to Spain, back to London, back to Spain, back to London. I had no resting days at the theater, because I had to travel. So it was tricky. But, just to be there. Just that my name is attached to Indiana Jones, is something that - I don't know. If my daughter has a baby someday, I can tell her 'Hey, Grandpa did a movie with Indiana Jones.'"

February 3, 2023
NBC NEWS TODAY SHOW
Harrison Ford: "I'd always wanted to see Indiana Jones at the end of his career, towards the end of his life, when everything catches up to him. I wanted to do it. I know that other projects are being developed for television, and I'm not part of that. So for me, this is the last time. I hope they'll like it. I mean, It's entertaining and it's a little surprising and it's bold. So, I'm happy with it."

February 3, 2023
LIVE WITH KELLY AND MARK
Harrison Ford: "For me, this is it, for me. I always wanted to do the story of Indiana Jones at the end of his career. And when we find him, he's on his last day at Hunter College as a professor. And the story goes on from there."
Q: "So he's about to retire from being a professor, and all hell breaks loose."
Harrison Ford: "It does."

February 6, 2023
VARIETY
Harrison Ford: "That is my actual face at that age. They have this artificial intelligence program that can go through every foot of film that Lucasfilm owns. Because I did a bunch of movies for them, they have all this footage, including film that wasn't printed. So they can mine it from where the light is coming from, from the expression. I don't know how they do it. But that's my actual face. Then I put little dots on my face and I say the words and they make my, it's fantastic. That's what I see when I look in the mirror now. I still see brown hair."

February 8, 2023
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
James Mangold: "Every challenge he faces is through the reality of what someone of that age would be dealing with."
Harrison Ford: "There were a lot of old jokes in the script. We took them all out. There is a moment where he observes himself in this situation and says, 'What the f*** am I doing in here?' But I hate what I call 'talking about the story.' I want to see circumstances in which the audience gets a chance to experience the story, not to be led through the nose with highlights pointed out to them. I'd rather create behavior that is the joke of age rather than talk about it. Jim developed the script, so I knew what we were getting when we were going in that direction. But Steven's still on the picture and has always been on the picture. He's not the director this time, but he's intimately involved. I never loved the idea (of de-aging) until I saw how it was accomplished in this case - which is very different than the way it's been done in other films I've seen. They've got every frame of film, either printed or unprinted, of me during 40 years of working with Lucasfilm on various stuff. I can act the scene and they sort through with AI every f***ing foot of film to find me in that same angle and light. It's bizarre and it works and it is my face. (As if first learning of the role) I'm playing this archaeologist, who wears a brown fedora, and a leather jacket regardless of the weather, and carries a whip? OK, I'll do it! Look, it was bizarre to start with, and it's bizarre again. But that feeling goes away immediately because it's so grounded in other things. What I love is that we're meeting him at a different point in his life to where we've seen him in these other films. It's a logical place for him to be at this stage, considering his behavior and what he spent his time doing. It's a very interesting script Jim came up with."

February 8, 2023
Forbes: Disney has revealed that it has shelled out $294.7 million on making the latest instalment in the Indiana Jones series.

February 14, 2023
John Williams: "Now, Helena is a character played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. I don't know if any of you know. She's fantastic, a comic actress, and action performer, and she speaks two hours of witty dialogue, some of which she wrote. And the theme of this character, Helena in the film, is meant to portray a kind of a 1940s woman who in those days like Lauran Bacall, a woman who smoked, and she drank, and she gambled. All of this while being extremely beautiful. So this piece is certainly is kind of an anachronism. So here is some Indiana Jones 5, which felt like Indiana Jones 10, it's called Helena's Theme."

February 14, 2023
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
James Mangold: "We can't hide from where we are in our lives - none of us can - and neither can Indiana Jones. I wanted to follow Harrison's own lead and simply deal with it straight on. It's not just a movie about a hero in his twilight years who is called back into action. It's more than just that his bones might ache, it's that his soul might ache, or that some of his optimism or sense fitting into the world might have evaporated. The mistake you can make in movies - and we've all seen movies like this - is where someone is of a ripe age, but the entire movie is continuing this charade along with them that they're not that old. The first three Indiana Jones movies took place in roughly the same period. They all easily fit with the serialized, theatrical, almost screwball-action style of the movies that were being released in the period they're set in. The challenge for [Spielberg] on [Crystal Skull], and for me on this one, is: How do you move forward into new decades where the world is no longer seen in such clear demarcations of black and white and good and evil? Where the whole concept of raiding tombs and fighting over relics is looked at in a different way? It's not about changing the story but allowing the character to experience how the world has changed around him. And our perception of politics is more gray. Who's a villain? Who are we working with? Who are we fighting against? Proxy wars, all of that. It's not as simple as the era around World War II. What happens to a hero built for a black-and-white world, when he finds himself in one that is gray? It's a problem that produces humor, produces contradictions, produces adjustments that this character's going have to make. It reminds the audience of the contrast between a hero in his physical prime and a hero at 70. We're not relying solely on the audience's memory of the previous films. It reminds everyone what he's done, what he's survived, what he's accomplished. By showing him in his most hearty and then finding him at 70 in New York City, it produces for the audience a kind of wonderful whiplash of how they're going to have to readjust and retool their brains for this guy. His past is a live memory for the audience, hanging over a man who is now living with anonymity in a world that no longer cares or recognizes the things he felt so deeply about. You're left with a multilayered perception of his character, both what he was and what he is, and how the world is different between the first 20 minutes of the movie. Indy's always looked to find the easy way out of a conflict. He uses his brain to solve a puzzle in the midst of something threatening his life. He's not a character who was built on being a gunslinger or a Marvel-style brawny, muscle hero. He's always looked for the quickest way out of a situation, and that only increases when you're 70. So his need to find ingenious ways out of a problem increases. Harrison was up for anything. If anything, he was the one who was fighting to do things, and then I would be like, 'No, not this one.' His attitude was tenacious and enthusiastic about all the aspects of the role, including the physical. When you're 79 years old, just getting thrown to the ground is its own trauma. Harrison is not unlike Indy in the sense he's carrying with him the scars of all the films he's made - as well as his own private calamities. He is literally this embodiment of all those bruises, broken bones and being bounced off walls and being thrown to the floor over so many years. As any actor or stuntman will tell you, this stuff takes its toll - especially when the director keeps going, 'One more time!' Harrison turned to me at one point and he said, 'That's the last time I'm falling down for you!' You recognize what profound instincts he has - not just as an actor, but also his understanding of how to use the camera. Movie acting is like 3D chess. There's so much more than just the truth of the performance but also tailoring it to the frame and knowing what's going to work. What I thought was most refreshing was - and I can't say I found this surprising because his body of work represents this so fully - is you sense he's working every moment to undermine the bulls*** of the scene. He looks for ways to make it more like life, mess up the false moments and to take the p*** out of his own character. He's got this great sense of how to be a hero?and how to undermine the tropes of heroism at the same time. How to walk on that tightrope is something you see him thinking about all day long; how to kind of play against the obvious grain in the scene. Also, how to kind of find humor where you might not think there would be humor. These gifts are a hallmark of his work."

February 15, 2023
James Mangold: "Bring a tub of corn and root for the hero. Who says the movie is about self reflection? Here's the thing. Movies move. They start one place and go another. Breathe. Disney marketing is extremely collaborative and I am involved in the cut and mix."

February 18, 2023
DEADLINE
Toby Jones: "It's so different. It's so massive! You work so incrementally and you work beat by beat, moment by moment with special effects. Twenty seconds might take two weeks to film! I thought I'd be bored out of my mind, but I found the whole thing so fascinating. And in the end, I was so relieved that I had done it. All I can tell you is that as time wore on with that film, we came to various action-like moments and I'd think, 'Well, that'll be a stuntman thing, and a stuntman will come along for that.' And days would sort of arrive and they'd go, 'Toby, do you want to come on set?' and I'd come on set like, 'Right, I thought they were doing the stunt, the big thing,' and he's sort of like, 'Yeah, so you'll walk along here,' and I kept thinking that at some point someone's going to tap me and go, 'But we'll let the stuntman do that and that,' and it never happened. And I thought, 'Oh,no!' I loved it. Working with Harrison was great. I'm not allowed to say anything. Baz, it'll be good. If it's like the script, I think it'll be really brilliant. All I pray for is the survival of films. I loved films and films in cinemas. It's the romance of that. It's felt like such a bonus in my life. I've been part, in my own little way, of being in films in cinemas because I grew up wanting to go to the cinemas, seeing films."

February 24, 2023
VARIETY
John Williams finished recording the score on February 10. "It's certainly got to be an hour and a half of music, maybe more. But I'm quite happy with it. There's a lot of new material. The old material works very well as a touchstone of memory, but I had great fun, and I have a theme that I've written for Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the wonderful actress. And I enjoyed doing it last week with the San Francisco Symphony with Anne-Sophie Mutter, who I arranged it for, for that concert. And I think I'll play it in Chicago next month. Harrison is wonderful in it. He looks great, he moves beautifully. The best part of it for me is the writing and the interplay of dialogue between Harrison and Phoebe, like the old-style Hepburn-and-Tracy kind of bickering. It's witty and bright and snappy, like a duet that goes on for two hours. [The scores] are unified by Indy's theme, and the general style of the film, which is in my mind a kind of action-comedy, because you never take the action seriously. It's certainly a swashbuckling affair from beginning to end, fashioned more like movies of the '30s and '40s where the orchestra is racing along with the action, which you wouldn't do in contemporary films very much. [Mangold is] ebullient and a lovely man. He's done a very, very expert job on a very difficult kind of film to make."

March 8, 2023
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, language and smoking. Certificate #54321.

March 16, 2023
US Copyright: In a rapidly changing world, Professor Indiana Jones is compelled to battle against the machinations of an old rival and protect a powerful artifact from those who would use it for evil purposes.

March 22, 2023
FLIP YOUR WIG
Toby Jones: "I think it's going to be moving as well as action packed. I think if it's anything like the script that I read, it will be moving. It'll be about more than just thrils and spills."

March 23, 2023
Jeff Sneider: "Rumor: The Ravenwood/Indiana Jones series at Lucasfilm is not moving forward, and furthermore, I've heard that Disney has told Lucasfilm to focus on Star Wars going forward, hence the cancellation of Willow."

March 27, 2023
Variety: Fifteen years after opening the Cannes Film Festival, the world's most famous archeologist is expected to return to the Croisette. Under the plans being discussed, the movie could be premiering on day 2 (May 17) or day 3 (May 18).

March 27, 2023
VARIETY
Thierry Fremaux: "I saw it, the film is wonderful. We would be delighted to show it at Cannes."

April 2, 2023
Disney: Indiana Jones will return to the Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of Lucasfilm's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, starring Harrison Ford as the legendary hero archaeologist. The highly anticipated final instalment of the beloved franchise - a big, globe-trotting, rip-roaring cinematic adventure - will screen out of competition.

April 3, 2023
Festival de Cannes: The final installment of the Lucasfilm saga will be screened on Thursday, May 18 in Cannes. On this occasion, the festival will pay a special tribute to Harrison Ford for his carreer. It is to the memorable music of John Williams, that James Mangold and Harrison Ford will climb the steps of the Palais des Festivals on May 18 alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Boyd Holbrook, Ethann Isidore and Mads Mikkelsen. An event that will mark the highly anticipated comeback of the famous adventurer in the Official Selection. The adventures of Indiana Jones conquered the hearts of millions of fans who followed him for four decades. The embodiment of a heroic America, Harrison Ford has played some of the most iconic roles of the last 50 years. The Festival de Cannes would like to thank The Walt Disney Company and LucasFilm for their trust and is looking forward to hosting the screening of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny which promises another great cinematic adventure around the world.
James Mangold: "In 1995, I was honored to come to Cannes with my first film as part of Director's Fortnite. Twenty-eight years later, I am proud to return with a slightly larger spectacle. My legendary collaborators and I are very excited to share a brand new and final Indiana Jones adventure with you!"

April 5, 2023
SCREEN RANT
Thomas Kretschmann: "We all grew up with Harrison Ford, right, and then you're there, and then the first day of shooting, and the first take you do, right away, "Ah, that's why Harrison Ford is Harrison Ford," because there's something you don't learn, you can't describe. My first first scene with him, the first day, he suddenly was so big in front of me - and we are the same size, he's not bigger than me, but suddenly, I felt very small. I had to adjust to not f--- it up, these are the treats. I've been always a fan of (Mads Mikkelsen), I think he's amazing. All my work in the movie is either with him or with Harrison Ford, and I was very surprised that he's a maniac in the sense of preparation. He is so precise, he works so much up front, and that's why it seems so light when you watch him, everything he thought through a long time before. So we were spending a lot of time together, we had a lot of drinks together, we've been hanging a lot together because we were also like partners on screen."

April 7, 2023
Disney: This year's Star Wars Celebration got off to a sensational start today in London with the stars and filmmakers of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny wowing fans with the first look at the never-before-seen trailer and an extensive exclusive look at the film. Appearing in person were actors Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen, director/co-writer James Mangold, and producer Kathleen Kennedy, with a message from star Harrison Ford, to reveal new details about the highly anticipated installment of the iconic franchise.

April 7, 2023
Lucasfilm: A legend will face his destiny, and it looks like an incredible adventure. Lucasfilm's Studio Showcase, held today at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023, closed with an emotional, action-filled new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

April 7, 2023
STAR WARS CELEBRATION TRAILER
Kathleen Kennedy: "You know, it's actually, and I think you guys remember how emotional that Harrison got when he was talking about this. It's pretty amazing when you're involved in something that's spanned this amount of time. And I think what you'll see is the minute this movie starts, you're gonna feel like you were thrown right back in time. I mean it's 100% an Indiana Jones movie. And that's how it felt every minute we were making it. So, very exciting."
Harrison Ford (video): "Hello, Star Wars Celebration. Hope everyone's having a wonderful time in London. And I'm sorry I couldn't be there. I'm working. You all, best fans in the world, mean a lot to me and I'm truly grateful for your support. Playing Indiana Jones all these years has also meant the world to me. These films are full of adventure, heart, and, for some reason, snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? On behalf of myself, Jim, Kathy, Steven, Frank, and everyone else behind Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, we thank you so much for embarking on this globetrotting adventure with us. I can't wait for you all to experience my final ride as Indiana Jones. As with any new adventure we're bringing some new friends into the fold. So please welcome my costars Mads Mikkelsen and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Thank you. See you at the movies."
Mads Mikkelsen: "I play Indiana Jones. My character is called Voller, Jurgen Voller, and he is a good guy. That's all I'm allowed to say."
James Mangold: "In his own mind."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "I play Helena, who is Indy's nefarious goddaughter, and she's also a really really lovely sweet adorable person. They haven't seen each other for quite a long time, and in some ways she's the worst thing that could happen to him at this time in his life, but I think also kind of the best thing. They are antagonistic but also have more similarities than either of them would probably like to admit."
Mads Mikkelsen: "Just being part of an Indiana Jones film is a dream come true. It's literally one of the first films I remember vividly. I was about (fifteen) so I has seen films before that, but it's one of those films that stick with you forever because of the way it just lets your imagination fly somewhere that we thought belonged to the 50s, but all of a sudden in the 80s I was watching a film that is just so evergreen still to this day. So yeah, it's a dream come true. And did you say a bad guy? It was a dream."
James Mangold: "Steven's work is something, these movies are something I grew up with. I saw the first Indiana Jones in upstate New York when I was 17 years old, and it changed my life. Also, Steven's work and George's work has been part of my life ever since I had a Super 8 camera in my hand in my teens. In some ways I felt like, yes, it's a big job taking over for Steven. But in other ways, his style is something I've been studying and admiring all my life, so it was just a matter, and it's been a huge influence on my work even before I stepped into a movie like this. So I try to just stay inside my own voice, but also, as I think people will see when they see the film, the first 25 minutes or so is me doing my very best to channel Steven one hundred percent."
Mads Mikkelsen: "This is Helena, And I play Jurgen Voller. I'm German from the 30s, if that rings a bell. I'm also a scientist. I think that's all I'm allowed to say."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "I play - wow, hi everyone, this is unbelievable, I can't believe it - I play Helena, who is Indy's long lost goddaughter who comes back and gives him a bit of a fright later in her life. Absolutely can't answer (whose daughter), yeah sorry, no you have to wait and see, but it's a wonderful revelation."
Mads Mikkelsen: "I can give you a hunch (indicates self). This (era) is your time, it's not Indy's time, it's not my time. I think both Indy and Jurgen Voller are kind of lost in the past. Just look at the way they dress. But they also have dreams that have nothing to do with the present. 69 is just a phase, you have to get over it, something better is out there. That's how my character sees it."
James Mangold: "Well it's a great point, you know the 60s are a kind of huge period of change. It's the arrival of modernism, it's the arrival of cynicism, it's the arrival of realpolitik and triangulation and wars where we're not even sure who we're rooting for anymore, and the cold war and nuclear power and moon landings. And so one way or another we were going to have to make a movie that took place in this period. So the movie is really interesting as it opens and you find Indy. It's no longer fashionable, that kind of hero. And he kind of proves his worth again in the course of the movie. But the time period has a really interesting effect on the story of course."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "We went to Sicily and Morocco and Glasgow is extraordinary. Whoo, Glasgow!"
James Mangold: "We love Glasgow."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Glasgow's energy is off the wall, it's incredible. They all were really, we were really blessed with these different incredible places. I loved Morocco. It was just a real, it was just such an immersive experience, and all the action sequences we did there, it really added to it, the fact that we were there."
Mads Mikkelsen: "Morocco rocked, yeah. No, I was a big fan of Sicily. It was something very Indiana Jones about Sicily. The roughness of the island was just like very much down the alley of what this film is all about, and the beauty at the same time, and the food."
James Mangold: "And the food."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "My God, the pasta. It's such an extraordinary thing working movies that have this scale, and it's such a gift to be able to experience that. I thought that I might be sort of a bit more prepared having done Solo and having seen something on that scale, but I wasn't. The marvel of it is extraordinary every single time when you really feel like you are living the adventure. So there is something so beautiful about being able to feel like you're really in that world when you're on that set. Cause sometimes there are 360 sets, and you just look around and you're actually in a tomb and you just can't believe it. I feel like all that stuff really actually happened to me."
James Mangold: "We never directed on the Volume. No. We did real s***."
Mads Mikkelsen: "I don't even know what Volume is."
James Mangold: "It's a miraculous LCD screen that creates a background behind you and they don't have to build it."
Mads Mikkelsen: "Yeah, I did that."
James Mangold: "We built it, or we went there."
Mads Mikkelsen: "This is the first room I'm in, so if anyone is my character, raise their hand."
James Mangold: "A Jurgen Voller cosplayer would scare me. I'm not sure we would want to find him."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "I think they should be careful."
Mads Mikkelsen: "No, apparently not, nope, not today. Maybe Helena?"
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Not yet, no, have you?"
James Mangold: "I've seen something of you, yes, yes, a little midriff tied, the mid picture look."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Oh, I can't wait. Reveal yourselves!"
James Mangold: "We hope you love it. We loved making it. I mean, it's not complicated. It was a real, it was a thrill. Not just the scale of the movie but to work with a legend like Harrison, producers like Kathy Kennedy, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and to have the miraculous John Williams at 91 years old writing a kick ass score, two hours of music by that man. So fasten your seat belts, we can't wait for you to see it."

April 8, 2023
COLLIDER
Kathleen Kennedy: "It's around two hours and 22, 23 minutes. Because runtime seems to be a hot topic. I will say that the early movies were shorter. They were under two fifteen. And we talked about that quite a bit, so now I see why maybe they're interested in this. But as you know, with runtime, it's all about how you feel, right? So, if you're sitting in a movie and it feels long, no, we're not dealing with a long movie. You know what I think? I think the reason this is interesting is because long-form storytelling is becoming something that we like in the streaming space. So, I think it might be that it's some kind of carry over from that. But God knows, I have to say this year there were so many three hour-plus movies that I felt like I wasn't getting any work done, trying to see them!"

April 9, 2023
James Mangold: "Yes (The Wilhelm Scream is) in there!"

April 9, 2023
CINEMABLEND
James Mangold: "You have to believe (the technology is) going to work. You have to kind of just believe it's going to work. My theory was, whatever they have to do, even if I have to make the film so grainy that it looks like archive footage, I think we're going to get there. And I think that it's on the shoulders of a lot of previous movies that pushed the technology along. Technology is one of the few areas where our society continues to grow at an alarming rate. And so it wasn't hard to imagine that five or six years after The Irishman that we'd be at a new level. We also had specific advantages on this movie, one being that there's so much footage, raw material of Harrison as a younger man, every side, every kind of lighting, night, day, high angle, low angle, close up, medium. There's so much negative, which our computers and our visual effects wizards can use to map that face. And also Harrison is exactly the same weight he was when he was 35 years old. So what's incredible is, you can just wrap that around him, and it's done."
Q: "Tell me about the day you found out John Williams would do your score."
James Mangold: "It's even more complex than that. I was thrilled beyond belief, but at first he was going to write some themes, you know, and then hire some people to help arrange it throughout the movie. And then he saw the movie. And then he started writing themes, and then he just didn't stop until he had written over two hours of music. In pencil!"

April 10, 2023
STAR WARS CELEBRATION IGN INTERVIEW
James Mangold: "(Nazis are) as much a part of the character of Indiana Jones as every other element we're familiar with. But also I think there are a million ways it's just relevant even to our world today, whether they're called one thing or another, these things don't die away. These groups have kind of dreams of order and of the old days and are trying to return to them. So I felt like it was both familiar and relevant. Well, at first I was hesitant because of my admiration for Steven and Harrison and stepping in. But when they came to me, there was such a feeling that they were still open to what the story was going to be. And so I got the opportunity for a year to kind of really work with the Butterworth brothers, Jez and John-Henry, on what the story of this film was going to be. And in some ways, the danger always with sequels is really, do they just exist to make money or do they have something left to say? And that's kind of the blunt question for me. Money is wonderful, but I'm not really interested in the creative act of just making a thing that's here just to cash in on its name. It was about finding a reason for this movie to be, and something for it to say. And I think we did. And it's been one of the most miraculous journeys of my life. Not only getting a chance to collaborate with all those you mentioned, but also these guys (Waller-Bridge and Mikkelsen) and Harrison and John Williams and the miraculous crew behind the scenes working on the picture. When you're young and you watch movies you admire, you go, 'I'd like to do that someday, or something like that someday.' But it is such a miraculous thing to find yourself actually doing that. You are in a cave with cobwebs with Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Nazis. And it is awe-inspiring. In the moments you're actually doing it, you don't have that feeling because you've got too much work to do to keep up with the greatness that preceded you. But in moments like this, you kind of go, whoa, that's kind of wild."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "I think the thing is that she really looks forward, whereas I think Indy looks backwards in terms of his love for history. And I think that's what sort of differentiates them at the beginning, but they sort of bring each other's perspectives together in a way that I think is really beautiful. (Helena Shaw and her character in Fleabag are) both rascals. What I'm always searching for as an actor and also as a writer and as an audience member is to have a character that keeps you on your toes, someone that you love to watch her get into trouble because you know that the way she gets out of it is going to be amusing. But she is also somebody, essentially, at the end of the day, that you care about. And that's what I think is extraordinary about this film. For all the adventures, there's such heart and you really, really care about all the characters."
James Mangold: "When we first started, when we were in prep, I remember Phoebe saying to me as I was still working on the script and talking to everyone, and she said to me, 'I really want Helena to be, there's this first time you meet her and then a second time you meet her, and then a third and a fourth and a fifth. But that the second time has to be a radically different person than the first time. And then the challenge for her later in the picture was going to be to pull all these divergent sides together. And I think she does so smashingly. But it was also really fun to work on because usually you're trying to just lay a straight breadcrumb trail for a character. And so it's great to be working with an actress who is so good on the ski slopes of acting that she could carve this way and then carve that way and then carve this way and at the same time maintain the center of the character."
Mads Mikkelsen: "They love me (playing villains). I don't know. I can blame it on the funny accent, I guess. No, a good villain is just somebody all actors wants to dive into. When they're well written like definitely in this case, they have two sides of the coin. We have to find a little part of them where we go, that makes sense. I can follow him that far. And then of course it goes a little too far. So it's just very human, if you can find humanity of the character, it will become interesting. And so we always try to do that. That's not being on the character side, that's just finding something we can link to."
James Mangold: "Don't you think antagonists are almost always the most interesting and driven characters in movies? I think they are. And I think one of the interesting things in the 20th century is here it became less cool to be a hero, to want things, conquer things, grab things, a protagonist. So most of our heroes are more confused and torn. But one of the beautiful things as a writer, when you write antagonists or villains or whatever you want to call them, is that they know what they want."
Mads Mikkelsen: "Absolutely. And I was just thinking about that because when we meet Helena and Indy in the beginning of this film, they're kind of lost. Both of them are lost. I know she's a busy woman, but she's lost in her life. There's no goal. This man has a goal. And he's had it for a long time. So, it's an interesting character to dive into."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "There is a lot of action though. Indy is put through the wringer on this, just as Harrison Ford was."

April 13, 2023
James Mangold: "Lotsa new (John Williams) themes and lotsa wonderful new takes on classics too!"

April 14, 2023
WINSTON SALEM JOURNAL
Karen Allen: "Time will tell."

April 15, 2023
SCREEN RANT
James Mangold: "You're walking among legends, and you're aware of it. The only wonderful thing on this project is that all the legends are embracing you and are happy to be there with you. Whether you're talking about Harrison or Steven or Kathy or George or John Williams. What an opportunity. It's like being on an all-star baseball team. You just hope you rise to the occasion."

April 24, 2023
TOTAL FILM MAGAZINE
James Mangold: "That's not my goal on movies (to set up spin-offs). I am really old-fashioned. I'm very classically minded, and I think Steven is, too. I make the movie very conscious about the movie being its own self-contained, functioning work of art in any way I can. If I feel pressure that I'm supposed to spin off or start to lay Easter eggs or track for some other enterprise later, it feels like a violation to me. Like I can't focus on telling a cohesive story with integrity. I'm making a TV show, is what I feel like at that point. I never came under any pressure to do that. The feeling for me was really simple: Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. And as Harrison Ford grows old, the Indiana Jones movies grow old. And so that was my focus. I do think Phoebe's character is phenomenal, and her performance is phenomenal. But that's a separate question. You could make a movie about any one of these fully realised characters who are in the film. But the goal is to land the plane with the same sense of clarity and satisfaction that the previous films have."
Mads Mikkelsen: "(Voller's) a mathematician. His love for that craft oversees his political ideologies. But if you can combine them, eventually that will be enormous for him. It's a fantasy world. I mean, I'm a history buff, so I know quite a bit about history. But I didn't use it specifically for the character. We looked at a lot of pictures to get an idea of where to go with his looks. Voller and Indy are kind of stuck in their own period. The 50s and 60s are going over their heads somehow. So they're kind of ancient people in 1969. So they have that in common, and that's about it - and a love for archaeology, obviously. It's always intimidating to meet your heroes, but Harrison is very easy to meet. He's so down to earth. Before we started shooting, we were just doing rehearsals and hair and make-up. One day, he was just standing outside his trailer, and I think he forgot about it. He was just wearing his jacket and his hat, and was carrying the whip. He was just waiting for something. I was like, you're back. It was just amazing."
Boyd Holbrook: "For me, in terms of why this person is the way they are - that was just the time and era, and what was going on in the country and the world. I think, really, he's a very confused individual who doesn't know who he is. There's a sense of him wanting to at least belong to something, which lands him in this predicament. You know, Jim is a fantastic director, and he really is honest. In approaching the subject, he's not going to try to fake it. He's really going to play with what he has. I mean, just to pull that off (motorcycling) was extraordinary. You know, rushing through the streets of New York and Glasgow. It's amazing because all the architecture in Glasgow is the same architecture we used in New York."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "(Helena) comes and turns everything upside down, basically. But she was a lot of fun to play, and they really nailed a humour and wit that is already in the DNA of the series. They created a really fresh character to carry that through again. I think they really achieved something extraordinary: she fits into the canon, and she feels like there is certainly an energy that she shares with all the characters that have come before, especially with the female parts, but she is unique, and she has a fresh voice. She was somebody who was mysterious from the off. I think (Indy's) often been the mystery to those characters before, especially his female counterparts, and I think there's something really unusual in how they flip that here. I still haven't really found the words for (the John Williams theme). I managed to actually meet John at the Oscars. To be able to say thank you to him for all the work that has inspired me over the years, but then also to specifically say, thank you for writing me a theme, was one of the purest and most precious moments in this side of my professional life. That was the best."
Harrison Ford: "I always wanted to see a completion of the character. I wanted to see him at a later stage of his life, when he's beyond the youthful enthusiasm and capacity, and beset by age and [stifled by academia]. I wanted to see him engage on one more unexpected, unanticipated adventure. I wanted it to concern age. I wanted it to confront the issues of age for a character who had always been adventurous, youthful, and capable, physically. I wanted to see the effects of age on the character."
James Mangold: "The overwhelming sense of honour of being approached by heroes of yours was intense. But also, I always have anxiety about making a sequel in a franchise of any kind, even one as illustrious as this, because I feel like you need to have something to say. It's kind of easy to expect that the cultural significance of a successful franchise will do its own work. And I think that produces, sometimes, awkward films. How do you make an Indiana Jones movie in the late 60s? What are those specific challenges? Thematic, even plotty, and technical? (Age had to be a factor) not just in terms of him saying, oh, my back aches. That's easy and also obvious. I mean more that when you're at a point in your life when you're suddenly taking inventory about what has happened, and where you are because there's not much left. That's not to say I wanted the movie to be Wild Strawberries. But I did want it to be honest. (I wanted Indy 5) to somehow deal with a theme that I'm always attracted to, which is kind of a hero at twilight. To me, it's this interesting moment when someone we know as a kind of legend is no longer appreciated that way in their surroundings. Time has outpaced them; their legends and their adventures have become either forgotten or maybe not even perceived as so cool anymore. It would be a collaboration with Steven, even when he was not around and was making The Fabelmans. It was a collaboration with Steven's gift to me all my life. The assignment to [braid myself with Spielberg's voice and choices], that was part of the excitement for me. I grew up on his aesthetics, and I learned from him, and tried to make my own discoveries within that world."
Harrison Ford: "There's no denying that Steven's stamp has been on this series all this time, but the primary task for Jim was to develop a script that would be so attractive to me that I could not deny myself the opportunity to do it. And that he did. He developed it with the Butterworths. It's a fantastic script. A very ambitious picture. I think Indy's a man out of time in every time. I think his heart and his soul are invested in the past, and the mystery of the past, and the beauty of discovering the mystery of the past."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "That (pandemic) was quite a situation to go into, (to then) go sit in my room for the next year-and-a-half, thinking about it. (Kennedy) told me over dinner. She said: there's a script being written, and there's a really exciting idea at the heart of it. Would I consider reading it? I fell off my chair, drank a bottle of wine, and said, absolutely. Send it over. And then I just fell in love with the script."
Harrison Ford: "(She brings) imagination. Intelligence. Grace. Humour. Joy. (Their relationship is) fraught. Complicated."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "She is a very witty and mercurial character. She's somebody who's part of Indy's past, and is a surprise in some ways, and is a comfort to some extent. And then she turns that expectation on its head, because she has an agenda of her own, which is hugely fun to play. She's rich and multi-layered. You don't really know what's coming next."
Mads Mikkelsen: "He's loosely based, obviously, on von Braun. He's a rocket scientist when we see him at this point, but he's basically a mathematician. It was not a secret that both the Russians and the Americans - and, to an extent, the British, but not as much - opened their arms and their doors for scientists from the Third Reich. And they closed their eyes in regards to whatever atrocity they might have committed. I love that character (Toht). He's part of making that (specific look) iconic. We didn't go that far with the character. It would have been interesting. (Toht) was more of a henchman, I would say. And this guy is the brain behind a lot of things. So they were not going down the same path. But I am wearing glasses. That's one thing. But we tried to avoid copying him at all, because he did it to perfection."
Boyd Holbrook: "(Klaber) is the liaison - sort of a lapdog, if you will - to Mads' character. He is the opposite of the moral compass in this film. (To get his flattop) they stick your head out the window on the way to work."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Indiana Jones and archaeology has always been about finding history below us. I think it's such a brilliant nod to how far the world had moved on in terms of technology, to look at the above and beyond."
James Mangold: "You make a movie like this, and you think about what's changed between the 30s and the 40s and the 60s. Modernism has arrived. Rock 'n' roll has arrived. All these cultural things have arrived. Technology has arrived. All of these things chip away at the innate charm of the period where the classic Indiana Jones films take place. So I wanted to give the audience a chance to behold that polarity, and then to land it in a time of realpolitik and cynicism and confusion, where the bad guys and the good guys are harder to tell apart, and characters like Indy are no longer revered. (For 1944) I just shot him, and he just pretended that he was 35. (Ford is) incredibly gifted and agile. But the technology involved is a whole other thing. We had hundreds of hours of footage of him in close-ups, in mediums, in wides, in every kind of lighting, night and day. I could shoot Harrison on a Monday as, you know, a 79-year-old playing a 35-year-old, and I could see dailies by Wednesday with his head already replaced. Meaning it wasn't a year of effort to get to a first pass. It was an incredible technology, and, in many ways, I just didn't think about it. I just focused on shooting what's (approximately) a 25-minute opening extravaganza that was my chance to just let it rip. The goal was to give the audience a full-bodied taste of what they missed so much. Because then when the movie lands in 1969, they're going to have to make an adjustment to what it is now, which is different from what it was."
Harrison Ford: "I'm interested in what it brings to the audience. I'm not particularly interested in the technical means of the achievement of it. It's not my jam. But I do think it's a very potent device, and in this case, I think the de-ageing, which sees the character in the context of another challenge, perhaps, 25 years earlier, is an intriguing, useful, and extremely sophisticated story device. In fact, when I look in the mirror, I still see that guy with brown hair."
James Mangold: "I really tried to, in all cases, avoid depending upon green screen or visual effects to solve problems when the connection to the earth, the connection to the gear, the physicality of the stunts, is so critical to the look and feel of an Indiana Jones film."
Mads Mikkelsen: "And then we went to Morocco for 69. We went to Sicily. And it all had that vibe of an Indiana Jones feeling. Back to scratch, everything we wanted for this film."
Boyd Holbrook: "It's just really crazy to look around, and to realise, wow, this is the final Indiana Jones movie. Wow, this is really happening."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "If you're throwing yourself off something, or rolling over something, or being thrown against something, there's very little acting required a lot of the time when you are untrained at it. God, it's the most fun acting I've ever done, those stunts. Because you learn this new skill, and you're embodying a character, and, at the same time, you have to completely be as honest as you can."
James Mangold: "Harrison does almost everything that he can do, except for the most ludicrous stunts, the most dangerous stunts."
Harrison Ford: "Every one of these films beat the s*** out of me. It just makes everything he does a bit more difficult, a little bit more complicated, and a little bit more daunting. But he has some companions on his adventure who are part of the process, not just Phoebe."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "I think sometimes there's that magical alchemy of the right part being taken on by the right actor. I think that actors should really be able to fill in the corners of the places that writers can't reach when they're writing a character. It's a real collaboration. I feel like Harrison didn't just colour it in, but he went all over the lines. There's something about Indiana Jones being a reluctant hero, and a reluctant adventurer to a certain extent. I feel like Harrison has the same thing."
Harrison Ford: "I don't look for, or agree to see, people who are daunted by me. You know, I'm a working actor. That's it."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "He has this amazing ability of making everything feel normal, because I think anyone meeting Harrison Ford goes a bit funny. I was no different. But within about five minutes, he sort of relaxed everybody, and we just got to work. That's what's so great about working with him: he loves the work. And once you're doing that, then you immediately become an equal. He really did treat me like that."
James Mangold: "I think every great actor takes aspects of their personality. Film is too much of a microscope to invent 100% a character from your imagination. You have to bring part of yourself."
Harrison Ford: "I think the continuum is the fact that it's the same actor playing him. This is not your fifth Bond. This is your first and original Indiana Jones. This is the final film in the series, and this is the last time I'll play the character. I anticipate that it will be the last that he appears in a film. I'm aware of the fact that there are plans underway, or underfoot, for a television version of the Indiana Jones experience, but I'll not be involved in that, if it does come to fruition."
James Mangold: "The person I'm always trying to win over is the person who's like, eh, not for me. Almost like a politician, I'm trying to win the independents."
Harrison Ford: "(It's) a richer experience for having seen the others. I expect that we will not have to depend on those that have not seen one of the Indiana Jones films, because the luck of my life is that these have become family films that are passed on from generation to generation. I had been ambitious to do this film for 10 years, and there finally came a time when we all committed to that. It was a joyous moment for me. I think it's a rare situation that I find myself in. I've been able to deliver amazing films developed by Steven and George over a 40-year period, and to end it not with a whimper, but a bang, has been my greatest ambition for this excursion."

April 25, 2023
TIME MAGAZINE
Steven Spielberg: "Well, I just had that experience two nights ago. Bob Iger had a screening for a lot of the Disney executives and I came to the screening along with James Mangold the director, and everybody loved the movie, it's really really a good Indiana Jones film. I'm really proud of what Jim has done with it. And when the lights came up, I stood up and I just turned to the group and I just said 'Damn, I thought I was the only one who knew how to make one of these.'"

April 26, 2023
CINEMACON
Harrison Ford (video): "Hello, CinemaCon. Playing Indiana Jones all these years has meant the world to me. (The movies) have adventure and heart, and for some reason, snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? We are all excited for everyone to experience our film on the biggest and best screens."
Tony Chambers: "We are cranking up to 11 with a high-stakes adventure. This is a big-screen, must-see movie event."

April 26, 2023
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT
Ke Huy Quan: "I want to say (yes), but no. Here's the thing. I don't want to disappoint the fans. I've joked about it all the time, but reuniting with Harrison after 38 years, that was very special. Of all the years, to have him present the Best Picture Award, at this year's Academy Awards, that was something. That will always be one of the most memorable nights of my life. And I can't wait to see him don the fedora again, and crack that that whip one more time. I will be first in line to watch it."

May 9, 2023
Taormina Film Festival: Italian Premiere. Sunday, 25th June, 21:00, Teatro Antico. The Italian Premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, directed by James Mangold and featuring Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, and Mads Mikkelsen with the cast in attendance.

May 11, 2023
DAGOBAH DISPATCH PODCAST
Kathleen Kennedy: "It's Harrison's last entry. That's how we look at the Indy franchise. I mean, truthfully, right now, if we were to do anything, it might be in series television down the road, but we're not doing anything to replace Indiana Jones. This is it. It's five movies that Harrison Ford did. And Harrison is so specific and so unique to creating this role. We just, Steven agrees, we just wouldn't do that."

May 11, 2023
STAR WARS CELEBRATION EMPIRE INTERVIEW
James Mangold: "The purity of the fandom, the sense that they're, in the end this is all about story, the one thing that unites all the Star Wars ideas and Lucasfilm ideas, and George and Steven and Harrison and all, is a kind of classical awareness of story and people loving that, and fantasy, makeup, creatures, puppets, imagination, wars over good and evil, philosophy, these are all driving what brings them to this festival, is which it really is and it's very moving."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Thanks Jim. That was beautiful. Yeah. It was wild. I have to say it's really wonderful being here when there's such expectation for this movie, but knowing what you've done Jim, what you've created with this movie, knowing that people are really genuinely going to love it, and it's going to satisfy."
James Mangold: "I hope so. That's great to hear."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "It's really exciting, I can't imagine what it's like being in that room and thinking, oh s***."
James Mangold: "It's like the guillotine. That was scary (signing on). No, it wasn't an instant yes. I mean it was an instant wanna do, in the simple fourteen year old super 8 filmmaker side of me, but the fifty something year old guy who knows the hatchets that are waiting for the person who screws up an Indiana Jones movie, you kind of go, you want to make sure you're standing on firm ground and you have an agenda and a story to tell, a reason to make the movie besides just making another widget, you know, you want to make a movie that has a reason for being and a story to tell."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "There was a sort of, there was a panic attack but then I read the script. I mean it was a good panic attack and also slightly disbelief. And then, but Kathy told me that when she first told me that the film was happening she said she was very excited by Jim's vision for it because they wanted it to be about something very real to Indy. I don't want to give anything away. What she said to me from the off, I was just very moved by the perspective of it and so I couldn't wait to read the script. And then the script. I felt like I ready in five minutes. It was the most joyful and brilliant read, and then I was just like screaming yes, just into my own kitchen."
James Mangold: "The only thing I have to add on Phoebe's account here is that we also literally were writing it, praying she would do it. We were writing for her in our own clumsy way, and wanting desperately for her, because that was who we envisioned in this role. And so it was pins and needles waiting for her to absorb this because it was kind of the missing link. I couldn't imagine who would play this role if it wasn't her."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Why Phoebe?"
Mads Mikkelsen: "I've asked you a couple of times."
James Mangold: "Needless to say, brilliant, comic, searingly good actor, a writer, poised, beautiful, surprises, brilliant at action."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Okay, this is starting to feel weird now. Can we stop this now?"
James Mangold: "You asked me!"
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "I was joking!"
James Mangold: "And what am I supposed to answer?"
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Why Mads?"
Mads Mikkelsen: "Oh, no, no, no."
James Mangold: "Well, let's go to Mads. Let's go to Mads. Cause Mads was another one where, I was like, he's never going to say yes to this. Cause now he's getting all the grief, it's like, you've played 2,600 villains and he's being made to pay the price. But I thought he's going to read this and go, not another guy who's trying to, and I am so grateful because the biggest thing when you have rules like this is that you have people even someone with an arch and ambitious and nefarious agenda that you have someone to bring humanity into the role and to make it breathe and to give them character, something other than just a dark agenda. And I'm so fortunate that he took this ride."
Mads Mikkelsen: "But yeah, so I'll throw it back."
James Mangold: "Neither of them want to hear any of this s***."
Mads Mikkelsen: "No, it was an instant yes, for two reasons. The history of this. I mean I grew up equally with it the same way as Jim. I had no idea I wanted to be an actor that point, I was just watching something that stuck with me forever. And every filmic guy I ever meet, that film, Indiana Jones, has been like starting something in their own minds of how they want to create stuff. It's just an amazing franchise. Secondly, the script. The script was absolutely beautiful. It was really warm, it was funny, it was touching, and I was really surprised with the script. So it was an immediate yes. A German. Well, he's a scientist. First and foremost he's a scientist, supersedes his love the ideology. Can you combine the two? It's a good day. And also I think maybe he would, let's say that he in 69 becomes the leader, he would have done it differently. Not as brutal, maybe differently. So it's always about the means justifying the course, it's all about that, right? But first and foremost he's just a scientist. He's just so dedicated to just one thing in his life."
James Mangold: "It's so not fair to ask an actor who plays the character whether or if they're, they have to find the humanity in, however evil you may see them, their only way to actually do a good job is to find the person in there."
Mads Mikkelsen: "Of course you have to remember one thing. Very few people in history set out to say I'm the baddie today."
James Mangold: "No, they wake up thinking they're saving the world. Even the most heinous people you can imagine are deluded and wake up in the morning and think they're saving the world. They're just not. Number one, I was thinking of the British film journalists, yes. You will get to hear that sound (Indiana Jones punching a Nazi). Enough said. You will get to hear other jaws popping but with not quite the same mellifluous residence you're looking forward to."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Helena is many, many things. She's incredibly funny and witty and she's a survivor in her heart. She's very independent minded she's mercenary. She likes money. She's a slippery fish. And you know, I'd say just don't, don't play cards with her, that would be my advice."
Mads Mikkelsen: "She just wins."
James Mangold: "Both."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Both, yeah. But she's got a wonderful arc in the movie, and that's the thing I love about her, is that she doesn't realize her own soft center, I think. At the beginning she thinks she's got everything under control and she's got a plan, and she thinks she knows how to execute it, and things get in the way, and she underestimates certain people along the way, and that sort of helps her grow as well. So she's got a lot going on, but she's a lot of fun and she is a rascal, and they're my favorites."
Mads Mikkelsen: "I actually think the very first thing I did with (Ford) was punch a Nazi scene."
James Mangold: "Yeah, I think you're right."
Mads Mikkelsen: "I think it was. So I remember that. Somehow he seemed to have a very pleasant day. He seemed to enjoy it a lot. He's a legend. You can always get nervous when you meet your heroes, right? But somehow he brings it down to earth and makes everybody comfortable around him, and all of a sudden you're just making a scene with a fantastic actor. So on top of everything else, that's one of his big, it's one of the big things about him. He is just making everything quite naturally."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Our first scene was in a bar, which helped, actually. And it was, it was just one on one actually, and there aren't that many of those scenes throughout because there's so much action and we're moving and sort of like betraying each other all the time. But this was actually quite quiet, and it was a lovely way to start, and it's quite rare that you get to start on your first scene as well, and we got to do that and I remember telling him I was quite nervous I needs to sort of snap out of it, and he rolled up his script and slapped me on the head with it and said, does that help? And I was like yes, actually, it did. Do it again, thanks, yeah."
Mads Mikkelsen: "Well, at least I didn't punch you in the face."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "No, no, no, I wasn't that lucky."
James Mangold: "So both of you had hitting scenes. (With me?) With Harrison, no. Although I'm sure we drove each other to the point of it at different points. But no, I adore him. I love him. And ditto on everything each of them is saying about the wonders of his acting and his presence on set. I do think it is so amazing as a director when you find yourself working with someone who knows not just acting but the camera, who understands this unique relationship a film actor has to the camera and that I don't mean that they're kind of outside themself or hamming it up for the camera, I mean they know how to use that rectangle, where it is and how to use it and how little needs to be done sometimes to communicate volumes. And I felt like, you know, I made a bunch of movies at this point, but this movie was a huge learning experience for me, because there were so many of my heroes around me as producers, and as a star, and as a composer, that I had so much to learn from their lifetime of doing this, and we are so lacking in movies of this kind of tone that move with agility between humor and excitement and fear and being moving, and it's a very tricky alchemy. And it's really wonderful to have those masters around to learn from."
Mads Mikkelsen: "That (pinch me) part happened when we were doing rehearsals, before we started shooting. When he casually came out of his trailer wearing it, the hat, the whip. And everybody else was like, ah! And he says, what? What's up? It's too surreal to be part of. But I will say, was it Scotland, Glasgow, somewhere, where we shot the train, it was foggy, there was a lot of treasures being brought back and forth. It was like, and I just watched, looked in the monitor, and it was like, this is Indiana Jones."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Yeah, seeing him, seeing Harrison in the costume was exciting. But I think there was a moment towards the end of the film where we walk onto a set, and it felt so like stepping inside an Indiana Jones film, because it was an extraordinary set and it was, aw, God, I hate when I talk about things I can't talk about."
James Mangold: "You can talk about a cave. Sure."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "I can talk about a cave. Thank you. And I always, yeah okay. There's a cave, there's a tomb."
James Mangold: "Just a cave. Why'd you say tomb? s***, they're gonna know everything!"
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "s***, you said tomb! Dammit!"
James Mangold: "No, it's fine, it's fine."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "But I remember the kind of child like wonder that I felt walking into that set, and it was just so like, I got the same I felt imagining what that would be like when I was watching those films as a child and I just couldn't quite believe it, and was sort of a bit overwhelmed. So the sets were really beautiful. and also the first, I think one of the first rehearsals we had, with you Mads as well, we did on the boat, do you remember, and you were really pitching that you wanted to have a tiny gun, and there was a moment when you and Harrison and Jim were debating whether you should have a tiny gun, and it would be pointing like this. And it was just a moment when I can't really believe I'm here. And I was all for the tiny gun."
Mads Mikkelsen: "I did get the tiny gun. I did win that one."

May 12, 2023
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Mads Mikkelsen: "When I was a kid, I had no idea that you could end up becoming an actor. I was just watching (these films) like everybody else. It's always been part of me; it's been with me always. So that is a special thing to be part of now, like 40-something years later. Actually, I met Indiana Jones before I met Harrison Ford, because he stepped out of his trailer after he had a costume fitting. And he stepped out with the hat, the jacket, and the whip, which was fun. There's an overlap between Harrison and his character, right? No, no, no, he wasn't (in character). Harrison, you get to know him. He's like that, but he's also a little what you expect him to be and what you're hoping him to be. So maybe he's already a character himself, by just being Harrison. And I do like that character, a lot. I think the passion for what (Voller) does and passion for what he's looking for, without giving too much away, and the passion for him knowing that this can make the world a better place, all that I can identify with. What does a better place look like? This is where it gets tricky. So I just have to leave that out, and then I can replace the end goal with something else (in my mind). And then it's recognizable, for me at least. Well, if you're a believer into a certain ideology, obviously, your end game would be that that ideology will be the winning hand, right? And that can come in many shapes and forms. I do think that he disagreed with Hitler on a lot of things. And (his ideas) might even be a better version than Hitler's, but still, one man deciding everything is never a good solution. We didn't want to go full-blown German accent because we've seen it a lot, and it can become borderline cliche, right? So we found a few vowels where he's insisting on being German, but that's about it. He's a man who is very, very passionate about his job, the science of what he's doing, and less so with the ideology of what he's doing. But if they can go hand in hand, that will be a good day for him. (They're) men stuck in time (with) the passion for that one single goal in life. (Ford is) a legend that is on his A-game, an amazing person. Besides that, just a fantastic actor. He knows exactly what he's doing wherever the camera is. And he doesn't use enormous means to tell a story. For me, he's like Buster Keaton, who kind of invented the close-up. He didn't run to the camera, he made the camera come to him. And it's wonderful to be that close to see him work. It was just a wonderful experience for me. I think I'm always nervous when we start out. It's not paralyzing nerves. It's just what we call the butterfly dust. This is going to be exciting, and it's gonna be great to meet these iconic characters."

May 15, 2023
EMPIRE MAGAZINE
Jez Butterworth: "We'd be sitting there behind the eight-ball, and the thing that would get us out every time was just how much fun it is to think about Harrison doing these things. We'd think, what awful situation do we want to put him in and watch him get out of? He does it better than absolutely anyone, I think, in the history of cinema. They are so hard to keep track of. I'd rather write you a three-act tragedy than write you three action sequences. It's got to feel like you're not just rehashing something. It's got to feel as fresh as can be."
John-Henry Butterworth: "They're character. They're all character. They're not just chopsocky."
James Mangold: "It was an extremely old-school endeavour. Dollies and track and sliders and anamorphic lenses. Old-school lighting and beautiful sets and travelling around the world and physical stunts. And one shot at a time."
John-Henry Butterworth: "It's lovely making a movie where you're never going to have that meeting where they're like, This has got too expensive. That doesn't happen on an Indy movie."

May 18, 2023
LUCASFILM
James Mangold: "We love Indiana Jones because we love movies. The joy of those adventures. We love the cause and effect, the tripwire of events. All these pieces fit together to make the lightning in a bottle of an Indiana Jones film. But also, it just fits Harrison like a glove."
Harrison Ford: "Preparation was not really necessary."
Kathleen Kennedy: "Harrison loves this character as much as the audience loves this character. So, we asked ourselves what could be the next adventure, and in this case, it was what could be the last adventure?"
James Mangold: "We come to find him in 1969. The world has changed around him."
Harrison Ford: "He's retiring as a professor, and he's about to stumble into an adventure."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "It's filled with awe and excitement and danger, and they've completely captured that."
Harrison Ford: "It felt good, and that we had made a film that the audience deserved. I feel confident that we're gonna knock their socks off."

May 18, 2023
WE LOVE CINEMA FRANCE
Ethann Isidore (translated): "I come back from the shops quietly and my mother tells me yes, your agent called, and you're going to have a casting session in Paris with Mathilde Snodgrass, the casting director for an American adventure film. I pass the casting, I don't think I'll be taken, and in the end a few days later we received another call asking to go to London to meet the director James Mangold. So at that moment I guessed that it was Indiana Jones. That was the link. I pass the second stage of the casting, and a few days later I walk on the Thames Bridge in front of the Big Ben, and there is my mother who receives a call from Mathilde Snodgrass, who told us that this is it Ethan, you're ready to play in Indiana volume 5. And it was crazy, we cried, we screamed, we jumped out of the room, we laughed, and we called the whole family and we were so proud. A lot of people say yeah, but young people to have seen a Indiana Jones, but I mean Indiana Jones, everyone grew up with it. I have all my friends, we do a Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones is a very well known saga that is in our hearts, and yeah I think that's a good thing in our hearts. And yeah, I've been rocked by his movies. I've had the collector's box set since I was 4 years old, and I also have fun playing Indiana Jones with my cousins. So it's a saga that I grew up with. A lot and that took a lot of things from me and I'm very happy to be able to be part of this adventure now. I'm lucky to be in a family that always taught me to never put pressure on myself. So I went there smiling and I was very happy to be there, and I didn't put any pressure on myself, so I lived it very well. But it's true that it's quite impressive the first time you arrive on this set. Everything is big. Everything seems crazy. It's like entering a dream. In fact, everything is unreal, but yet it's palpable. It's not true. I've already met Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen. Incredible actors, and the sets were crazy, even the costumes were incredible, and we had a crazy crew, and in decoration. We were in an adventure film. Casting in Paris with Mathilde, thanks to the casting director for an adventure film."

May 18, 2023
CANNES HONORARY PALME D'OR
Harrison Ford: "Thank you so much. Thank you. I'm very touched. I'm very moved by this. They say when you're about to die, you see your life flash before your eyes, and I just saw my life flash before my eyes. A great part of my life, but not all of my life. My life has been enabled by my lovely wife, who has supported my passion and my dreams, and I'm grateful. And you know, I love you too. Thank you. You've given my life purpose and meaning, and I'm grateful for that. So grateful. So grateful to have the opportunity to work with artists like Jim and Phoebe, even Mads. And I am, I'm deeply moved by this honor, and humbled. But I got a movie you ought to see. It's right behind me. So let me get out of the way. And thank you again for this great honor. Thank you."

May 18, 2023
CANNES PREMIERE STANDING OVATION
James Mangold: "Merci. I just want to say thank you. Thank you so much for having us here. 25 years ago I think I came here with a small film called Heavy that played in Directors' Fortnight, and it's kind of amazing to be back here again with a slightly larger film. But one thing was true then and is true now, this film was made by friends. It's hard for me to even say because it's hard probably for you to believe that a movie this big can be made by friends, but it was. It was made out of love. It was made out of devotion to what came before it. And it was made with tremendous trust from all these people on both sides of me that let us play and let us make something strange, and hopefully something that you felt was wonderful that you could enjoy that would carry on the legacy of these great movies that preceded us. Not in your case, sir (to Ford). So again, just merci, thank you for having me here again, and us here again. And it can be a family that makes a movie, and it can come out of love, however hard that is to believe, even on this scale. I'm here to prove it and say it did happen. So thank you."

May 18, 2023
WE LOVE CINEMA FRANCE
Harrison Ford: "It was a magical experience. It's a beautiful theater and beautiful projection. And a very warm crowd. I'm very grateful for their support."

May 18, 2023
INDIEWIRE
Bob Iger watched the film for the fifth time at Cannes. At the afterparty, he said that the studio could consider further extensions of the franchise. "The last movie was here 15 years ago. So we'll see."
James Mangold: "This was the least stressful movie I've done." He pushed for the studio to take the Cannes route. "We wanted this. That's the thing about all this Twitterverse bulls***. This movie was done six months ago. I'm trying to do (Twitter) less." He was color-timing it until earlier this week. "I'm finished with the writing aspect of it."

May 18, 2023
DEADLINE
Bob Iger: "You have made me very happy to hear that" Deadline had just been the first to post its rave review.
Frank Marshall said the subway horse-riding chase was all shot in Glasgow, Scotland, where they built some of the set but found the perfect location, noting it turned out they had the same planning designer of Manhattan as Glasgow.
Harrison Ford was still at the party as I was leaving well past 1 a.m. and having a great time with wife Calista Flockhart. She told me she couldn't believe Cannes Film Festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux introduced her to the audience, and even before her husband.

May 19, 2023
ABC NEWS ON THE RED CARPET
James Mangold: "Not reinventing it, just trying to do it in whatever natural voice I had. This is like, what a thrill for me to get to collaborate with these heroes of mine. It's the honor of a lifetime."
Harrison Ford: "It's a great costume. It's a really unique character. I was so glad to be back in it. (That younger version) sucker was cute, for a minute. No, I'm just kidding. It was nice to see it. And because it's become so much more graceful. It's not Photoshop that was actually my face at that time. So there's no sense of artifice here. It's absolutely amazing."
Mads Mikkelsen: "He's the best. There's a reason why he's a legend. He's just the kindest man, best actor. He's very generous and makes everybody comfortable on set. It was just an experience of my life working with Harrison."

May 19, 2023
HEY YOU GUYS
Harrison Ford: "I was very gratified. You make a film, you don't make a film for yourself. You make it for an audience, and this is the first time I've seen it with a proper audience, and very distinguished. An audience of many of the people who work in our industry. And I was very gratified by it. I think Jim Mangold made a terrific movie. I think the performances from Phoebe and from Mads Mikkelsen and from all the other cast were brilliant. And I was just very moved by it, and it was a very nice nod to my career. And it made me realize how lucky I am."
James Mangold: "It was glorious. We had a wonderful reception, and it's so wonderful to be back in this great festival and in this great city again. Adventure, comedy, love, romance, mysticism, miracles, all the things you've come to know in an Indiana Jones film we tried to put in here as a fond farewell to a great character. Well, movies were made to be seen on a big screen and shared. I mean, you know the number one thing that happens with a movie is not only do you see the imagery and hear the sound, the great John Williams score, all these sound effects on a grand scale, but you share the experience with people around you, instead of the dog barking and people going to the bathroom and someone delivering pizza. It's a very different experience and one that I cherish."
Mads Mikkelsen: "It was wonderful. I hadn't seen the film, so it was the first one for me and it is really beautiful. I enjoyed it. But I think you're gonna watch an Indiana Jones film like you did in the '80s, but it's got the fingerprint of Jim, his unique style. But it's back to scratch. It's rounding off the franchise in an absolutely fantastic way. This one should be experienced on the big screen like many other films, I would say almost every one. But this one specifically. It's a giant film. It's like old school from the '40s and the '30s. It's a spectacular visual, and you cannot watch it on a small screen."
Shaunette Renee Wilson: "It's amazing. It was incredible. A wonderful audience. The room was full of love and support. We honored the great Harrison Ford. It was incredible to witness and be a part of. It's jam-packed with so much action, so much heart, and so much thrill. I think people are going to really be surprised by what they see on screen, but also really really, happy about where the franchise is going, and where it ends. Oh, it's such an epic, wholesome film. It has everything you need, and it is not for the you know the laptops. It's not for the indoor TV screen. It's a massive experience. You want to experience it with the whole a community of people."
Ethann Isidore: "It was amazing. This movie is amazing. Thank you James Mangold. I loved it, and I still can't realize this is happening. It doesn't feel real. I'm so happy. Thank you all for being here and for watching this movie. Go watch this movie in theaters. It's an amazing movie. Well, it's an episode where you're gonna meet Indiana Jones in a very weird period of time. It's during the space race, and this is a period you haven't seen in Indiana Jones before. And I think it's a really interesting way to go back to this character. And you're gonna have a lot of nostalgia and you're gonna cry. Believe me, you're gonna cry."

May 19, 2023
CANNES PRESS CONFERENCE
Harrison Ford: "It was indescribable. I felt, I can't even tell you. I mean it's just extraordinary to see a kind of relic of your life as it passes by. But the warmth of this place, the sense of community, the welcome is unimaginable. And it makes me feel good."
Kathleen Kennedy: "Well first of all, (Mangold is) a consummate filmmaker, and he loves cinema. And that has been very clear in every single moment. And all, I think every bit of this experience has been watching Jim actually take from the world of cinema and create something that is not just what we had done with Indiana Jones but it walks this fine line of stepping into 2023 with something that we created in the late 70s. And that's an incredible thing to do, and I think that can only be done by somebody who truly loves film."
Frank Marshall: "Yes, I have to agree. What I loved about working with Jim is that he's such a collaborator, and he's a family man, and we like to have our movies feel like a family. And Jim stepped right into that role and sort of as the father figure, but also listening to all of us. And there was a lot of love and laughter on the set. And so he just feels like exactly the right person to have done this."
James Mangold: "There was hesitation because obviously it's an awesome responsibility. And also you understand that there's so many expectations upon a film like this that you can only, you'll only achieve some of them. Because there's just so many expectations everyone has their own version, their own dear version of Indiana Jones. And there's no way you're ever going to please everyone. But you also have the other hesitation, was that it was such a legendary crew of the greatest of film producing, acting, directing, coming to me, scoring, that joining in was trying to understand in the most honest way, that I could be, that I could make a movie that also felt like mine. That was not just, I was coming in to kind of fill a gap but also to come up with a story. And like Frank said, I walked into this wonderful family, and that was the greatest reason for doing the movie for me, you know. I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark when I was 17 years old in an Upstate New York mall on opening day, and it's one of the reasons I'm a movie director. And so to find myself three years ago facing Stephen and Kathy and Frank and Harrison and being invited to join them is kind of beyond any dream I ever had. On the most selfish level, just to collaborate with these people who are my heroes."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "It's extraordinary because it's an adventure in and of itself coming into something like this. But the incredible thing is, once you've got a wonderful script, the magnitude of what came before sort of can sit to the side for a moment because it's very nerve-wracking coming to something that is so adored, and then there's something very heartening when you have an incredible team who care about the story and the characters so much that it's about creating a new journey, while serving everything that people loved before about the movie. And the moment I'd spoken to Kathy and Jim about what they wanted to do and how profound they wanted this film to be, as well as how fun and adventurous, it just became a very exciting challenge. And it's only really now that I remember again what a huge franchise this is. And so that's all coming back up for me now. But yeah, it's really about being part of this gang which is calming."
Shaunette Renee Wilson: "I mean, this movie talks so much about time, and how we deal with time, and how we deal with the passing of time, and where we are now in the present and the past, and I'm just so overjoyed to have made my imprint on our history and our time in our cinema. Indiana Jones is before my time, but it was still a crucial part of my upbringing and my introduction to American culture. I'm an immigrant, I was born in another country, came to the States when I was two, and we watched Indiana Jones growing up. So yeah, I'm just overjoyed, truly."
Ethann Isidore: "Well, it's an amazing feeling to be able to be part of this amazing adventure. And I think like everyone else, I grew up watching these movies, and I'm really happy to be part of it. And I remember watching these movies every weekend with my parents, and now I'm in this movie franchise with Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen and this amazing cast, crew, and James Mangold."
Harrison Ford: "Careful, this is contagious."
Boyd Holbrook: "Yeah, very contagious. It is that feeling. I feel like a kid being in this film. It's incredibly surreal to watch a movie as a child, and this is the movie that makes you love movies and want to watch more movies and now somehow you're a part of this incredible team of people to make this film. And I knew that when Jim gave me a call it would be an incredible journey. He's the most passionate person I've ever been able to work with. He said it was a small part, I said okay I'll read it, and five or ten pages in, way before my characters is even introduced, I said okay yeah this is going to be Indiana Jones, I'm going to be in the Indiana Jones movie. It's incredible. That's an incredible feeling."
Mads Mikkelsen: "Thirty years before I was born the first film came out. I was fifteen. Did I get it? I was fifteen when I watched it. I rented a movie box of five films, and I think that was the third film we watched, and it blew us away. And we watched it again and again, me and my brother. And I think what these films, I mean they're legendary for a reason. We all wanted to be, this is way before I wanted to be an actor, but I wanted to be Indiana Jones, I wanted to be him, right? And I think that impact was all over the world. We talked about it yesterday. It's like there are franchises that people kind of like, and some people watch, and some very much watched, but this one everybody loves. Everyone loves this. And there's a reason for it. Because there's a charm in the film. There's a charm in the character. This is a flawed man. He lies. He steals. We want to be like him. And he's charming, you know. A lot of my colleagues, especially directors, they watch that film and that's when they made their mind up they wanted to be directors. And I'm super proud of being part of it."
Harrison Ford: "I wanted to see a good movie. I wanted to see a good movie. I wanted to see a completion of the five films. I wanted to round out the story. I wanted to see this man who depended so much on his youth and the vigor of youth. I wanted to see the weight of life on him. I wanted to see him require reinventions, support. And I wanted him to have a relationship that was not a, you know, a kind of flirty movie relationship. I wanted him to have a deep relationship with somebody. And I wanted to work with Jim, which was proposed at a certain point. And I cannot have been better served with a script, with the kind of actors that we have been lucky enough to get, with the passion and the skill that Jim has brought to it, that John Williams has brought to it. Everything has come together to support me in my old age. And I love the work. So I just want to work. And I want to tell stories, good stories, and I have been so lucky in my life to have that opportunity."
James Mangold: "If I could add something to what you're saying."
Harrison Ford: "Of course."
James Mangold: "When Harrison and I first talked, I think one of the great things about working with Harrison is you realize, leading man, star, legend, whatever, he's an actor, and he's always looking for what he's going to play. And I think that he was, when we spoke, what he was looking for in the script was, why does this movie exist besides all the obvious business reasons for the movie to exist, what are we going to explore, dig up, not only in the ground, but in character, that makes it worth doing as an artist. And I think that was really what excited me more than anything, because if you have someone like this with that kind of mandate and question, that's a huge opportunity as a dramatist. That's all you ever want, is someone asking you to ask questions, as opposed to just give pat answers. So that was the main reason I jumped in, was this kind of artistic invitation I felt from Harrison."
Harrison Ford: "Thank you. I think that you don't want to separate the myth and the magic. They belong in the same box. There's a little myth, there's a little magic. But there's all of what's planned, and then when it's peopled, these people, it becomes real. It becomes real. So you want the support of all of those elements of the story. And it takes a little math, but they bring the magic. Because the story supports their characters. Because the alliance between character and story is observed from the very beginning, and it's understood that the character supports the story and the story supports the character. It's a knit. It is, it's f***ing magic when it works. And if it doesn't work, it's a nightmare. So there is magic here. And it comes from the collaboration, from the knit of everybody's ambition, and what they're willing to put into it. And I've never seen actors give as much to each other. Thank you."
Q: "Why do you feel that now is the right time to let Indy go?"
Harrison Ford: "Is it not evident? I need to sit down and rest a little bit. But the reason is, I love to work, and I love this character, and I love what it brought into my life, and that's all I can say. Thank you for the question."
James Mangold: "When I came on, I wrote a kind of story document that was kind of the trace, what I kind of had in mind after talking with Harrison, and kind of thinking about what could be, and talking to Kathy and Frank and Steven. And I had an idea, but you know there were scripts and material that existed, that had different adventures for Indy, but I didn't feel like there was something thematically holding it together, the why now for me was not answered, why is this movie happening now at this point in his life. And that's where the Antikythera, and the kind of idea of time, and time not merely in terms of the artifact, but also as a theme for all the characters in the movie, are wrestling with regrets, and past, and kind of what's behind them and what's ahead of them, and so I tried to cobble out a document that kind of encapsulated that. And then Jez and John-Henry Butterworth joined me, and over the next year and a half we hammered out so many partials, and I don't even know when a draft is a draft, we just keep writing and writing and getting reactions from people, and trying to get to the end. In terms of the WGA, I'm not sure what the question is, of course we're not writing now, but no movie happens without a great script, and no great script happens without writers. And writers are often, because they're first in the process, they're often also first to be forgotten. And I think that is true in so many parts of the business, so I support them in their struggle to get what could be fair for everybody."
Harrison Ford: "I can answer very, very simply and then Mads can belabor the point. I love Shrinking. I love doing comedy. I'm going to do another season of Shrinking. I'm also lucky enough that 1923 has been picked up again, so I get to do another season of that. (Regrets of parts you didn't take?) Nah. No. You know, if it works, if it happens, it happens, and if it doesn't, there's a reason for it somewhere. Mads?"
Mads Mikkelsen: "I agree. And the regrets, it's a tricky question, because obviously if there's certain things you turn down, and it turned out to be a huge success, is that what you meant? But I've never experienced that. I didn't get the offer in the beginning. So no, I don't think so. I mean, the things that have gone wrong or slightly wrong or well, they're all stepping stones towards something that will become your career eventually. I mean, without them you wouldn't learn anything. You know, in terms of what I'm going to do, I'm going to work with Brian Fuller, I did a TV show with him. He's going to do his first feature film as a director, it's called Dust Bunny. Can I add something else that's like reflecting on a career that was this long, and it's just like the atmosphere is getting a little, listen. The first time we had a night shoot in this film, we wrapped up at five in the morning we were all completely wasted, wanted to go to bed. Harrison picks up his bicycle and goes riding for 50 kilometers. So that was just a, come on Harrison. He's like, so what are we supposed to do, you know? So I think there's a couple more Indys in there."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "It certainly did feel like traveling back in time, particularly after we had gone back in time to the war in Syracuse. And that was the magic of this, is that there were so many, so many places to visit physically, and also in our imaginations, and historically in this film, and that never happens in any film. And it was so committed to, and the worlds that we went into were so real. And when we were sort of, when we sat on that beach at the end with these incredible soldiers throwing spears at each other, it was quite frightening and very realistic and that was something very unique about this movie. I loved the fighting more than I can possibly describe. I loved the stunts and the action element. I was surprised at how freeing it can be as an actor to just throw yourself at something, and to get out of your head sometimes, and just jump off a tuk-tuk. It can be a very useful exercise for an actor. So there are many things that I enjoyed about that. I can't remember if there was something else you asked me. Oh yes, yeah, (speaking Doric Greek) was really hard. That was very, very hard. I don't really have anything more to say about that actually than it was just incredibly hard."
James Mangold: "Before, during, and at all stages I talked to Steven. Did I feel responsibility? Well, I mean, you make a movie, you feel a lot of responsibility. You take on a film like this, you're aware of this added level of expectation, that there's so much, that because this is a property that is so dear to so many people, there's a massive amount of emotional attachment and expectation, and none of the expectation, the Venn diagram of all the expectations are not on top of each other. There's choices to be made. You can't make them all happen. The only thing I know about making movies, having done it all my life, is that not unlike being on a sports team, if you won a championship last year, you can't get on the field the next year thinking about what you did last year. You have to be on the field with your team and moving the ball toward the goal in that game. And so you have to be meta aware obviously of the franchise, but in the end you have to make the damn movie. And you have to live in inside this picture. And you make your decisions based on what actually the movie starts to tell you. You cast all these wonderful people, you have a script, the movie starts to speak to you every day. You arrive on the set. It tells you what it needs. The actors tell you what they need, but the scenes tell the actors what to do. It's the most wonderful thing making a film, is that at a certain point the film is our boss, and it's really clear what it wants and where it wants to go, and you try and steer it just like a game. The game has a direction, and it starts to go in it. You're either going to go with it or you're going to fight it."
Harrison Ford: "Let me tell you, yeah, I can ride a horse, if they let me."
James Mangold: "How you stay in shape? But Mads kind of answered that with his Olympian story."
Harrison Ford: "Yeah, which is bulls***. But very kind. There's a partial truth there. But look, I have been blessed with this body. Thanks for noticing. Film at eleven."
Q: "Talk about the destiny that brought you here?"
Harrison Ford: "Yeah, man. All true. All true. There's so many people with talents that never get to see the light of day, and that's a terrible shame. Because for many of us we don't find an easy fit, you know? There's something about actors, that they can be very unhappy if they can't work, and they can't work unless they're asked to work often. There are other ways of doing this, but in my case I had to wait for luck to come along. But during that period of time I had the opportunity to learn from my experience a bit of craft. Because luck will not save the day. There's a craft skill involved in what we do, I think. And the art which may occasionally show itself in what we do is a spirit that we all seek. But we know what we're doing is the that the satisfaction comes from the work that we do, from the pain that we feel when we disappoint, from the joy that we feel when we're adequate, successful, and so you are in the process of recreating your life, or in your imagination at least, through the progress of your personal history. My luck has been to work with incredibly talented people, to find my way into this crowd of geniuses, and not get my ass kicked out, when I didn't do as well as I wanted to. But I was allowed to continue, and I apparently still got a chance to work, and I want that, I want that in my life. I need that challenge."
Q: "Does the de-aging open possibilities of seeing young Indiana Jones in other movies?"
Kathleen Kennedy: "No."
Harrison Ford: "You got the answer from the right person. But the technology has evolved, or this iteration of that technology has evolved to the point where it, to me, seems very realistic and I know that that is my face. It's not a kind of Photoshop magic. That's what I looked like 35 years ago, because Lucasfilm has every frame of film that we've made together over all of these years. And this process is scientific, mining of this library was put to good use. You know, it's just a trick unless it's supported by story, and it sticks out like a sore of thumb if it's not honest and it's not real. I'm not talking about visually, I mean emotionally real. And so I think it was used very skillfully and assiduously. So I'm very happy with it. But I don't look back and say I wish I was that guy again, because I don't. I'm happy to be, you know, I'm real happy with age. I love being older. It was great to be young, but s***fire, I could be dead, and I'm still working, so go figure."
Q: "Where is your hat?"
Harrison Ford: "I think it's at Sotheby's, where it will earn a lot of money for charity, I hope. Now I mean, I don't, I'm not, I do have a hat, yeah. But I'm not so nostalgic about that. The experience of making these films is what lives with me, and that I treasure. The stuff is great, but it's not about this stuff. It's about the experience."
Q: "The first phone call?"
Harrison Ford: "Yeah, well I knew. There was no phone call. There was no phone call. We just, you know, I know James. I was delighted. I love his films. I know his films. But I didn't know him as well as I have come to know him. And he is the most generous, most supportive, most disciplined of directors. But the secret to his success is that he never stops. He pours himself into the job, and it's the sweat equity that he puts into these projects that makes them live, makes them sing. And I was just delighted to, you know, listen. He filled the shoes that Steven left for us in an extraordinary way. And it's not just filling the shoes. He more than filled the shoes. He made for me a beautiful movie."
Kathleen Kennedy: "I would like to see the whole (WGA strike) situation resolved by truly being in an environment where people can talk about what are some really complicated issues right now that are affecting the entire industry. But when it comes to acknowledging the importance of writing, I think everybody up here has demonstrated that you can't do any of this without great writing. So all of us who make movies who create anything on television, I am in full support. I know most people are in full support of the writers getting what they deserve. And I think what the meta issue here is, how is that being impacted by an industry that's really changing? It's in the midst of change, both technologically and just the basic aspects of how we work. And that's going to take time. And I think that's what everybody's getting ready for, is to take the time that's necessary to try to make sure that everybody can articulate what those feelings are, and try to arrive at a resolution around alignment."
Harrison Ford: "Thank you all."

May 19, 2023
ABC NEWS GOOD MORNING AMERICA
Harrison Ford: "There's no place like Cannes to see a film to present a film. The warmth of the places is notorious. It's such a generous atmosphere. But the film played very well, and I'm very happy for the reception it received. A lot of people have invested their energy in their lives into it, and I'm very pleased about how it all turned out. Very proud of it. I can't put (receiving the Palme d'Or) into words. It translates into permission to continue."
Q: "What are you going to miss about Indiana Jones?"
Harrison Ford: "Um, nothing. We did it. No, I mean I cannot tell you how much joy it's given me to be Indiana Jones. And I've done it five times, and I've loved every time, even when it wasn't as much admired as it sometimes was. But every time the passion of the people involved has been, well I can only say that it matched my passion, because I love what this kind of film brings to an audience. The combination of adventure and emotion is really the elements of its success. And the actors that we have been able to bring to play the characters in the series are of extraordinary strength. I mean, Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, from every part it has a brilliant actor involved. And Jim Mangold is the hardest working director in show business. Man, talk about sweat equity. The guy never stops. And he says he's a match for Indiana Jones. Well, I had not been fully sympathetic with the idea of de-aging myself, because the movie is, for me, the movie is about age. And so until I saw the final construction of the screenplay, until it was all together, I was a little resistant. But when I saw the product, which is actually very different than every process that's yet been attempted, I was convinced that it was so real. Because it is real. I mean, that is my face 35 years ago. It's not a Photoshop kind of process. Lucasfilm actually has a library of every foot of film exposed on me during my time with them, Lucasfilm, which is significant. And they're able to mine that with artificial intelligence, to come up with the right angle and the light coming from the right direction. I acted the scenes with balls on my face, as it were, and, please. And then, where were we? And then my voice, it's my mouth, but no, it's a magic process. And anyway, it works, I think wonderfully well, and brings a real scale to the film. The film is very bold conceptually. The story revolves around a scientific device from history, and its potentials to change the shape of reality. I cannot describe it any further. You've got to be there in the house, I think, when it happens. But it's a beautifully constructed film. And if that was their ambition to create a situation and watch me or work myself out of it, I worked myself out of it with a brilliant director, a fantastic cinematographer, wonderful actors. I had a lot of help."

May 19, 2023
EL MUNDO
Q: "You seemed to be really moved receiving the Palme d'Or."
Harrison Ford (translated): "If that's a question, the answer is yes. I would tell you that, of all the Indiana movies, this has been the most desired and pursued. I also think that it is completely different from the others. And obviously not only because of the change of director. What I always wanted was to develop the character at an age where he is completely disarmed. We wanted to see him in absolute solitude, helpless, and that it be his adventure and his new relationship with his long-neglected goddaughter, that would bring him back to life. After all, the true heroes of our time are the old. We wanted to put Indiana face to face with his audience as he really is and without makeup, with all his years without hiding a single one. That was the challenge. The first condition that I have placed on the director when I approached a character again is that it be different. I'm the first one who doesn't want to do the same thing over and over again because I understand that the viewer doesn't want to see me doing the same thing over and over again. Making Sean Connery my father was a new experience for all of us. And that's the idea. The only obsession that has guided my career is being surrounded by new people, with new ideas... In this sense, I play with an advantage and I'm somewhat selfish. I take more advantage of the inexperience of those around me than they do of my experience. For me the work does not make sense without the concept of risk. I never play it safe. I throw myself into the water without knowing if I'm going to run out of air. If when you do something the possibility of failure does not enter into the equation, what you do makes no sense. Indiana is an imperfect man. He can't even be called a hero. He's not a hero, he's essentially a goofy guy. But other than that, he's a different character in every movie. In each appearance he is a little wiser perhaps, but like any of us he has good days, bad days and days when that wisdom is of no use to him. The virtue of him is that, despite being involved in incredible adventures, he actually reacts like any of us would. And so until one fine day, when he is older, he wakes up alone and with an empty glass in his hand. Who hasn't happened to him? That ending you are talking about is incredible to me seen from the outside. It is what I really like about my profession. You prepare for weeks a role, a scene, you reproduce it over and over again in your imagination, you rehearse it... And when someone says action, the scene no longer belongs to you as an actor but to the character. That ending is as surprising to me as it may seem to you. I don't recognize myself. And this is good. There will be those who from a critical point of view judge that it is good, bad or regular. But I'm not referring to that, I'm talking about something uncontrollable that makes this trade of mine end up being so addictive."
Q: "You almost lost his life in a plane crash. Are you one of those who need to test your limits to feel alive?"
Harrison Ford (translated): "Well, you do what you do until things happen. And then you worry. But I'm not one of those who look for things to happen. I have spent 25 years of my life flying by plane and one day what I knew could happen happened. A mechanical failure and the engine stopped. So you think about it. I will tell you that something magical and very cinematic happened to me in that accident. When everything happened and I was about to panic, I heard the voice of one of my mentors as a pilot who dictated to me what I had to do in order not to kill myself."
Q: "Like Obi-Wan Kenobi."
Harrison Ford (translated): "Something like that."
Q: "Are you one of those like Tom Cruise who insists on doing his own action scenes?"
Harrison Ford (translated): "I love Tom Cruise, he does amazing things. And to me, within what is possible, I like physical acting. When you start practicing it and you've never done it, it ends up being quite addictive."
Q: "And doesn't the addition of virtual effects detract from Indiana's authenticity?"
Harrison Ford (translated): "Not if they are well done. And it is so."

May 20, 2023
GRAZIA MAGAZINE
Harrison Ford: "I wanted to complete the human story of a life. We spent years with this guy. I wanted to see him face the challenge of age. But the world is not black and white anymore, it's shades of grey. Maybe not 50 but a least a half a dozen! It's complicated and there's kids growing up in a world without a moral compass, to a degree. This character that Phoebe plays is the articulation of that reality. Her process is so critical to the strength of the film. The relationship between Phoebe's character and my character is one of the deepest relationships the series has created and featured. She's so accomplished and graceful as a performer."
James Mangold: "I think that she's unlimited. You know there's a pretty damn clever Swiss watch operating behind those eyes, and you better be careful. She's sharp and fast. So, who better to have Harrison jockeying with than someone with all that skill? One of the hopes you have for every movie is that there's a kind of chemistry, a kind of music between your actors, and Harrison and Phoebe had a great dynamism together."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "It's very nerve-wracking coming into something that is so adored. It's only really now (in this room) that I remember again what a huge franchise this is. That's all coming back up for me now! I loved the fighting more that I can possibly describe. I loved the stunts and the action element. I was surprised at how freeing it can be as an actor to just throw yourself at something, get out of your head and just jump out of a tuk tuk. It could be a very useful exercise for an actor."
Harrison Ford: "I was ambitious for a story that featured a reality in context of the character. And that reality is most specifically the presence of age. I wanted it to be about that, because that's what I'm about right now. It moves me, and it generates my stimulus and imagination. I don't look back and say I wish I was that guy again, because I don't. I'm real happy with age, I love being older. It was great to be young. I could be dead! But I'm still working. Go figure."

May 21, 2023
ASSOCIATED PRESS
James Mangold: "When I got over my initial hesitation of just, holy s*** this is a big challenge to step into these very big shoes that Steven Spielberg is leaving, the opportunity, on a very selfish level, to collaborate and learn and have the tools and the resources to play on this level was hard to resist. When Harrison and Kathy and Steven came to me about this, you're talking about just heroes of my life. George Lucas. John Williams, too. The idea of being invited to not only play in an all-star game with that kind of team, but also take the mound and be the pitcher, is beyond. So you flash forward to this moment where I'm kind of stepping in to the director's chair, and it's a chance for me to both try and carry forward what I feel like I've been learning all my life from Steven's work. And at the same time carrying my own voice, but wanting very much to work within the same kind of golden-age vernacular that he's operating in. It's pressure because you can't be playing at a higher level with a headier crowd of luminaries around you. You either have to rise to the occasion or not. I don't think directing an Indiana Jones film is a job. It is a lifetime commitment. There's too many luminaries and too much involved. When they came to me they were very laser focused on me stepping in. The idea for me was that I wanted to write a script that I could get behind. I wanted to really retool the existing script pretty aggressively, almost entirely. But when they first came to me? It was a complete shock. I was numb. But I'm also not new at this. There's a kid in me that's tickled and flattered, the romantic in me. And then there's the rational person who's survived these movies up to this and knows how to make a picture like this. These are love letters to Golden Age cinema. You're making a narrative and you're making a movie about characters who have to feel real, but you're also making a movie that in and of itself is about enjoying the sheer beautiful spectacle of movie making. The way shots move together, the way sequences are constructed, the way you kind of unwind the onion of a revelation in the movie. These are all things where you're taking your guidance from the classics. When they approached me, I immediately found myself faced with making an Indiana Jones with a hero in his late 70s. There's no way around the fact that the audience is going to be confronted with Harrison's age. They're going to see a man they've grown up with in his late 70s. To me, it's not about what I'm doing, it's about what I'm not doing. I'm not going to allow myself to be in denial that this is going to be a huge factor in the audience's mind. The movie becomes about the very thing that is undeniable. What is it like to be a hero, to be a kind of swashbuckling, mischievous, demanding, fearless, but also fearful? What I thought about, even in relation to some of the struggles they had with Crystal Skull, was that it's very challenging to carry a kind of golden-age character forward past the dividing line after modernism arrived. The optimism and clarity of purpose with which characters operated in the '30s or '40s is not the same environment that they're operating in in the '50s, '60s and '70s. The arrival of modernism has brought realpolitik and a kind of lack of clarity about who are enemies and who our heroes are. It's brought a kind of cynicism into the world about easy heroes. Science has replace mysticism, and we're landing on the moon where nuclear weapons are all around us. We shot his last shot and everyone applauded and we all drank champagne. And it is very moving. But you've been through almost a year of making this movie together. To do a good job making a movie like this, you can never sink completely into that way of thinking. Because if you did, you'd be lost in kind of the symbolism of each moment. Indiana Jones is a part of Harrison, so in a way, I don't think he's ever saying goodbye to the character because he carries this character. It's very close to who he is."

May 21, 2023
VANITY FAIR
Mads Mikkelsen: "Everybody loves Indiana Jones, and for good reason. The charm of it, the skill of the filmmaking, Harrison himself, the music. It's everything. It's just the full package. I grew up with it. I was just 15 years old, rented the movie box, watched them all with my brother. We watched Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark 10 times. It had a mind-blowing effect on us. We'd never seen anything like it. I've been fans of other things, like Bruce Lee, but as a film, it was just out of this world. We wanted to be up there on the screen, finding artifacts. It had an enormous impact. I have a funny story because the week before, a friend of mine was just listing the franchises I've been in as a baddie. He was like, surreal. I've been in that and that and that. And I'm Danish, it doesn't make sense. What the f***? How did that happen? And then he said, so now all you need to do now is Indiana Jones, and he laughed. And then a week later, I got that call, so I couldn't wait to hang up to tell him. It's really funny. I did read the script, but on the first instinct, it was like, yeah, you want to be part of that. Then I read it and then I thought that the adventure was there, the charm was there. And they took into consideration his age in really appropriate ways. They didn't step on it constantly. They just bumped into it occasionally, which I thought was great because if it was too much, it would be annoying. And then the ending was just beautiful. I was like, that's interesting. This is quite touching for an Indiana Jones film. I think that obviously there's a story to be told about somebody who's just draped in ideology, but that's not the story we're telling. We're telling a story about a man who is a scientist in the 30s and 40s in Germany. He's German, and so obviously he will be part of that party. There's no way around that. But his love and his dreams are in the scientific department. But if the ideology can be part of it, it's a good day at the office. But first and foremost, he is not unlike Indy: He's driven by his passion for his science. Not so much research (was done). It's obvious that it's built on a few characters that are well known. One is Wernher von Braun. There was never a secret who he was, von Braun, and what he was working on. It's moderately built on mostly his look actually, because he had this really nice curved hair from the 50s and 60s. And I really enjoyed it. In terms of clothes, we wanted him to be stuck a little in the past, a little like Indy. Both him and Indy did not move so much, but the world moved. But it was so funny because I really loved the hair when I was not moving too much because that was exactly like von Braun's hair. But the second I started moving, it just fell down and I looked like a boy band. I think one of the first things you have to do is understand the universe you're in, whether it's Star Wars, Bond, or Indy. There's a certain tone. You can't always put a finger on it, but you can tell when it's not there. For us, it's like, let's stay within the frame. We can push the frame a little, but let's not break out of it. That universe has to be part of it. But in general, I'll just approach a character with both sides of the coin as much as we can. You look at Harrison's Indiana Jones: He's a hero, but he's as flawed as they come. He's lying, he's cheating, he's drinking, so he becomes human. And so you desperately have to find that humanity in the villain as well, somehow. You don't often have that many scenes to make sure that it happens. You try to find little things, not justify them, just recognize them. You have got to find something so it doesn't become completely alien. (De-aging is) all these little things (points around his eyes). But I was nervous because they did talk about that they didn't have to. Let's say dyeing my hair when I was 28, completely black, would be not crazy. But when I'm 57, I just look like an old woman. But they did something. It's not the same technique as they used on Harrison, I believe. Because they had all these frames of him as young Indy, so they had to do something else. It's a little weird. I think they did a hell of a job. I sense a smell of plastic, but it's amazing they can do it. It's great for this kind of film where we jump in time. It's obviously not something that any of us will be huge fans of if they don't need us anymore. This is not what we want. But Harrison did all the scenes though, so they just changed his look, so they still need us for now."

May 22, 2023
FANDANGO
Harrison Ford: "As this film opens, and it opens in the past to start with, we have the usual teaser or first sequence of the films. Sometimes has something to do with the movie, sometimes it doesn't. In this case it does have to do with the movie. And it's me during World War II, and I've been de-aged. And that was done with a new technology that I don't think has ever been used before, except in deep fakes. They have used all of the footage that Lucasfilm has acquired from since I started working with them many, many years ago. 35, 40 years of footage of me. Not only the takes that were used, but the footage that wasn't used. And they're able to mine that for my face in different lights and with different expressions. Then I act the scene with balls on my face, have a device for animation, but in this case they're able to go through all of this stock footage that they have of me, and pick out those moments when I was that age, 35 years old or so. And my lips are coming from the performance with the balls on my face, but the rest of my face is my actual face from 35 years ago. So it's not like a kind of, what do they call it, Photoshop kind of thing. It's really my face so it's spooky. I think it's great. I mean, I think our script altogether is fantastic. But that opening is of course action-packed, and then the cut from that to present day, the day that men landed on the moon, is a great transition. And we get to see Indiana Jones at my age on his last day of being a professor at Hunter College. He's retiring from that, and he's not in the best shape of his life when he meets Phoebe."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "I don't remember anything at all, but Kathy asking me about it and then the wine. I couldn't believe how quickly I read that script. Scripts are hard to read anyway even if they're good, because it's just the focus element is always just a little bit hard, and that, I sat down with that script and it felt like five minutes had gone by, and I was just, it's breathless. And it's so exciting. And that opening sequence, I was laughing out loud and gasping. Even just reading the script I felt so in the world already. And it was just, I could not wait to get started. And I came the first day on set, I actually came and I saw you shooting that (1944) stuff. I'm not sure how much I can give away. But you're in a compromising situation. So I saw you shoot all that stuff, and then having seen the film, see the de-aging thing which so impressive technologically, but it's also really impressive that you were actually still the person doing all that crazy stuff."
Harrison Ford: "Well, the last time he saw her, she was 12 years old, and she is the she is Indiana Jones' goddaughter. Her father is a former associate of mine, a wonderful English actor named Toby Jones plays her father. Then she shows up, and I don't recognize her because she's taller and looks different, and she's showing up at Hunter College. Of course she's up to no good, but I don't know that at the time."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "She's very manipulative, and that's fun to play all those layers. But she's definitely playing the little emotional violin when she meets Indy for the first time, reminding him of showing him photographs, reminding him of the kind of idyllic times they spent when they were younger, and kind of bringing him into this sort of soft focus this memory just long enough so that she can spin on him and get what she wants from him. Because she is a survivor, and she's smart, and she seems to be one of those people who has been kind of trading on luck most of her life. And at the beginning of the film you discover that she's getting a little squeaky. It feels like her luck is running out, so she's had to pull all the stops out, and one of the stops she had to pull out in order to save herself from this terrible situation she's got herself into is to hit up her old godfather and try and manipulate something out of his possession."
Harrison Ford: "I think he has been teaching for however many years. He's a bit dispirited with teaching. His students are not keen on archeology necessarily, and they're kind of loafing through his classes. And I suppose he is as well. And he is now forced to retire by, I suppose, the rules of Hunter College. And they're bringing somebody else in to be the head of the archeology Department. And he has no real future in mind for himself. I thought it would be really interesting to see him at the end of his career, older, not necessarily wiser, but still capable of a last hurrah. I mean, there's great joy in playing the character. I'm familiar with the character. I've enjoyed playing the character. I've had great writing to support the character's behavior, and the sense of who he is. But now we're taking him into the twilight of his life and his career. We're seeing him not so strong, not so brave, not so attentive, but about to go on a grand adventure with a very fascinating set of compatriots and adversaries."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "(My first time in an action film was) very much both, very much a fish in and out of the water all the time. I feel I was so excited to be a fish in that water."
Harrison Ford: "She killed it. She really went for it."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "It is so much fun, especially because it's not meant to be slick. So allowing the action to be kind of like a bit rough, and a little bit like you kind of have to throw yourself into it in a way that you really don't know what's going to happen, obviously within the safety protocols and everything, but there's always an element of, you're allowed to mess it up a bit. And that was incredibly fun. The adrenaline of doing it, like I mean it really felt like really very real at times. And I was covered in bruises, which I loved. And I just love being sort of flung around a set like that, which is so fun. And you have to stop acting when you're doing stunts. I mean, I was supposed to keep acting. But I was genuinely thrilled and terrified at the times that Helena was meant to be thrilled and terrified. But I love it. And I love, I have a whole new appreciation for watching stunts now and an envy."
Harrison Ford: "We've always shot things practically as much as possible. And we did the same here. Jim is a perfectionist. He's got eyes like a hawk. He works terrifically hard by himself. He works hard with us. He works hard for us, and he's a terrific director. I had the best time working with him. He's a perfectionist. We're both sort of of that ilk. And so it was delightful working with him. We had a lot of fun making the movie, hanging out together. And Jim just was, it was a great time. Jim developed the story with the Butterworth brothers who wrote the script. And I was very surprised by the design of it. It's a very complicated story. It's a very intricate kind of sophisticated construction for what looks like an easier kind of thing. But it's really well built, well constructed, and the cinematography is great. The action is great. It's a huge job of work for a director and Jim just worked tirelessly on it."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Well, (the dial is) an ode to some of the great myths of our time, but also to mathematics and arithmetic and the potential of human accomplishment, no matter what time in the history of the world they are achieving things. And it is round. I really think it's once we got into, again I'm not even sure if I can say this, we've gone into a certain set that had a kind of magic to it, and that was completely all-encompassing, the set was. So whichever way you looked you were really in this place. And I walked in there, and it was towards the end of filming, and so much of it, these things were hitting me all the time. But it was really only when I walked into that particular set that I felt the 10 year old in me just be like, thank you for the choices you made getting us here. Because this was the moment that everything felt the most magical, and pinch me. It was beautiful."
Harrison Ford: "Well, I mean all it takes is to put on the leather jacket, the hat, hang a whip from my belt, and look in the mirror, and oh, Indiana Jones. Well it wasn't hard, and it was fun. Really fun. I channel the ideas, not the character. The ideas that the character is meant to give expression to. So I'm looking for that cement between the character and the story. And I want to make sure that I make every moment with that character help the story. Because that alloy between character and story, when it is seamless, it provides the greatest model support for both the character and the story. It feels better than a slap in the belly with a wet fish."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Which we did do."
Harrison Ford: "Well I said to her one day, this feels better than a slap in the belly with a wet fish, and she said what, what are you talking about? I said, you don't know that expression? Slap in the belly with a wet fish?"
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Didn't know it."
Harrison Ford: "So we happened to be..."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "...near a wet fish."
Harrison Ford: "There were wet fish in the in the vicinity. We were in a Moroccan market and I got her to slap me in the belly with a wet fish. But to answer your question, it was a great pleasure to play this character. I'm so grateful for the opportunity that I had at the beginning of this, and the opportunities that I've had throughout this experience playing this character. I know what it's done, changed my life, had great effect on my life. And I'm very grateful that audiences have enjoyed it. We've had great filmmakers, Steven Spielberg, Jim Mangold. We've had great actors. It's been an incredible ride, for 40 years we've been doing this. And I wanted the last one to be, I wanted it to be really good. And I think it is. Who, me (emotional)? No, I'm not emotional. I'm not sentimental."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Not at all. Doesn't ever cry, or have to cry, you big softie."
Harrison Ford: "No, I'm made of wood. Made of wood. No, of course it means a lot to me."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Mads brings, he's created a character so sinister because of his gentleness, I think. And I think that was something that was very surprising and incredible to watch sort of bloom on set, especially for someone who's so up for larking around and having a laugh. He's genuinely terrifying and incredibly still. And Boyd who is sort of on the same team, and yet cut from a very different cloth, they're both really frightening in in their own ways. And the thing is, the stakes in the script are so clever because the stakes are so different for every single person, and yet the overall adventure is keeping everyone at the same pace. But Mads, it's so hard to say anything without giving it away. Can you help me? He's a Nazi. I don't need to say anything else. He's extraordinary and really frightening. And I think there's a lot of joy to be taken from an excellent villain played beautifully, excellently, and he is that. There's a creepy crawly moment. No, (the wet fish) was just fun. There's a creepy crawly moment, and there's some screaming. There's some running."
Harrison Ford: "Running, jumping, and falling down."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: " I feel like even from reading it and then having watched it, I feel it delivers on every single thing you could possibly hope from an Indiana Jones movie, as well as being its own story. And it doesn't repeat anything it's done before but it has the same DNA, the same heart, the same feeling. And that is one of the great joys of it, I think, because it's its own thing, but there are moments that your just heart will explode from how beautifully Jim's sort of carved it. I mean, funny enough, I think at 10 I probably would have believed (I would do this). It's only when life hits you around the head, and you reach around like, you're a teenager, like that won't happen. But at 10 I'd be like, yeah that sounds about right, I'd be an adventurer, yeah, in an Indiana Jones movie. And then it gets real and you think that will never happen. And then magically, it gets real again."
Harrison Ford: "I would have been happy with (knowing this in 1981). Well, you know, I think one of the things that's really fun for an audience is to get a little emotional exercise. Not just the running, jumping, and falling down. But some of the moments of humanity that are actually quite touching."

May 22, 2023
Harrison Ford "Harrison Ford here."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "And I'm Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Tickets are now on sale for our new film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny."
Harrison Ford "The Indiana Jones films have always been filled with mystery, adventure, and heart.And our new movie will continue the tradition. See you June 30th."

May 22, 2023
Phoebe Waller-Bridge "Hi 4DX fans. I'm Phoebe Waller-Bridge from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I wanted to let you know that our film is coming to a 4DX theater near you. Experience the action and adventure of the daredevil archaeologist like never before. With over 20 environmental effects, don't just watch the adventure, feel it in 4DX. Book your tickets now."

May 23, 2023
BRUT AMERICA
Q "A hero accepts his weaknesses and flaws?"
Harrison Ford "Yes, I think so. But except, you know, he is still troubled by some of his domestic issues. And he's in the midst of a very hard time. And he is re-vivified by his relationship with the character the Phoebe plays."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Yeah, she gets him just at the right time for what she needs."
Harrison Ford "Well, he's never been a perfect hero. At heart he's a mixed character, you know. There's a little larceny in him in his soul, and in his pursuit of valuable archaeological articles. But there's also a soul to the man that we begin to understand and in the first film, but throughout the development of that character, I feel that each film has developed the character in a way that advantages that character in the film. And so I always wanted to see him at the end of his career, since we saw him you know in his youth. We've been making these films for 40 years."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "But what I love about the character, and all of the characters, and in this script as well, they're all a little bit broken in a beautiful way. And I think in a film that promises fun and adventure, the courage for it also to have such emotional gravitas in each character makes the action more exciting, makes the relationships more exciting. And I think we all will Indy to have a love story, and we will him to have happiness and to find satisfaction, and that sometimes he's his own worst enemy in attempting to get that for himself. Well I, as Harrison keeps reminding me, was four when (Last Crusade) came out. But I remember it being so in the DNA of my upbringing and so in the DNA of culture, that I sort of grew up with, I believed that Indiana Jones was real, you know, for many years. It turns out, he is, which is great. But I think that sense of adventure and humor and mischief that the films had have never really been captured in any way by any other franchise. And I've always dreamed of having an adventure, never imagined I'd have one with Indiana Jones himself. But it's a dream come true."
Q "How do you feel about ranking as AFI's second greatest hero?"
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: "Second?"
Harrison Ford "Well, it depends on who the first one was. It doesn't matter. I mean, I'm pleased that we've been able to you know bring five really great movies to the culture. It feels like a wonderful chapter in my life, a chapter that was, opened doors for me and allowed me to work with other wonderful directors and make other films that I'm very pleased to have had the chance to make, be part of. But I mean, this character is a singular in my in my experience, and the most, I mean I have not made five films, you know, of a series with any other character. So I know, I feel grateful that we had the opportunity to make this film. I'm very proud of the script that Jim developed, Jim Mangold developed to round out the story of Indiana Jones."

May 25, 2023
DEN OF GEEK
James Mangold "There seemed like a lot of danger on a project like this, a lot of Mount Rushmore heads of greatness around me and a kind of pressure that I'm used to, but the point for me is always why are we making this movie? What does it have to say? Like, I know why a corporation might want to make the movie, but what is the creative endeavor? The script wasn't there (in early 2020), and I felt like I wasn't there. I needed to find a way in. I needed to somehow own something like this if I was going to do it. It's not a gig you jump on. It isn't that this story (a swan song like Logan) uniquely appeals to me. It's that the opposite thing doesn't. To me, making a movie about a handsome guy in his prime without vulnerability of any kind is its own bag of problems. I've seen many movies, even in our modern franchise context, fail. A whole bunch of studs in outfits running around blowing things away and saving the world can get pretty numbing. My actor is 79 years old, and we got to be real. I know everyone wants to pretend all the time, but there's only one man who's ever going to play Indiana Jones, and he happens to be 79 years old. So I'm making a movie about that guy, not the guy who's 79 pretending he's 52 because that's not real. Astronauts are our heroes, and people are now voyaging to new worlds outside our planet; it dwarfs Indy's digging in the earth." The director confides to us that when developing the story, a primary concern was figuring out why the last Indy movie struggled. "(Raiders) is this unique nexus, not unlike what happened with Star Wars, where it's classic movie serials, Golden Age plotting, and optimism with clear senses of good and evil." He compares Ford to Humphrey Bogart and John Williams' score to the work of classic Hollywood composers like Erich Wolfgang Korngold. "There's an aesthetic unity to the film. Even though it's a mash-up of modern technology, Steven is still a classical filmmaker. It's on steroids, but his whole language and vernacular are built off classic Hollywood cinema. Guys in a hat with a whip at their side are not running around Manhattan in 1969 and flying off to an Egyptian site. It's not happening anymore. I'm not into the shaky-cam, f***ing 75 cameras pointed in every direction insanity. I don't like flying the camera through a keyhole and then out the ass of a gnat, and I find the endless pursuit of one-er (takes) to be another kind of athletic stupidity that has gotten to be an arms race of, I'll out one-er you. What about storytelling? That's what Steven's work teaches us all the time. I love the cut, the power of the cut, the power of the move, and the move that meets the cut. That was the greatest attraction of this film, the idea that I would have almost a middle-aged film school for myself in which I get a chance to try to walk in the shoes of my heroes and literally play on their ballfield with them. Harrison is always looking to undermine his own good looks and seeming invincibility. He is not an actor who's going, make me look good all the time. He wants to look sloppy, bad, real. He wants to be full of jealousies, anguishes, trivial, petty grudges, anger, and miscalculations. I know Harrison pretty well, and he's a handful in a wonderful way. He likes to argue. He likes to push back and pull on the scenes. He's extremely demanding of himself and everyone around him, so I wanted somebody that would present him with challenges every day." He was watching Fleabag season two while developing the script. "She made such a massive impression on me as a powerful creative force, and also a comedian and actress, and we needed something very fresh to put up against Harrison." Ford was also a fan after recently binging Fleabag. "We both just said to Kathy Kennedy, get her." Waller-Bridge liked the script (or the nearly two-thirds of it that were finished). "You want to fall in love with her, but you know she's going to destroy you. It's this wonderful combination of mess and art." This film gives him "permission to indulge all of it."

May 31, 2023
ESQUIRE
Harrison Ford "We look for ourselves, and we look for useful information to help us navigate our f***ing lives and the world that we're living in. We don't realize we're looking for that. But we're looking to pull out of a fantasy something that's useful to us. And what's useful to us is to emotionally participate in things outside of our own lives. I wanted an ambitious movie to be the last one. And I don't mean that we didn't make ambitious movies before, they were ambitious in many different ways. But not necessarily as ambitious with the character as I wanted the last one to be. (On the horse) I thought, What the f***? Like I was being attacked by gropers. I look down and there's three stunt guys there making sure I didn't fall off the stirrup. They said, Oh, we were just afraid because we thought, you know, and bah bah bah bah. And I said, Leave me the f*** alone, I'm an old man. Leave me alone, I'm an old man getting off a horse and I want it to look like that!" When he held his hat in the face of actor Mads Mikkelsen and pulled his hand back to demonstrate the punch, someone was in the way and he had to adjust mid-strike. Ford pulled the subscapularis muscle off his right shoulder.
Q "You've always been known for doing so many of your own action scenes."
Harrison Ford "Yeah, well, I'm also known for shutting movies down because I get hurt, which is not something you want to be known for. But hey, s*** happens."
John Williams says Ford will often come sit on an auditorium stage while the orchestra is recording the score, just to listen, an unusual thing for an actor to do. "A genuine joy."
Harrison Ford "(My first scene in 1969 is) not what you expected. That's why I wanted to do the movie. I wanted to know what happened to him and how he handled it. Mangold and I worked closely together, on that scene especially. Waking up in my underwear with the empty glass in my hand was my idea. I wanted to see Indiana Jones at a nadir point and rebuild him from the ground up."
James Mangold says every morning on set, Ford would rise out of his chair and say, "All right, let's shoot this piece of s***."
Harrison Ford "There are things that are just dumb for me to talk about, that are going to make it less interesting to go see my new movie. Our new movie. Jim's new movie, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's new movie, Mads's new movie, Disney's new movie. I'm not Indiana Jones. I'm Harrison Ford, Harry Ford, in fact. (Star Wars superfans) usually ask me, if there was a fight between Han Solo and Indiana Jones, who would f***in' win? And I say, me, asshole! I don't want to f***ing make s*** up like that. I mean, what are you asking me that crap for?"

May 31, 2023
ESQUIRE
Harrison Ford "'Explain the VFX used on Indy in Dial of Destiny.' I'm gonna try and explain it, but I don't understand it. I think they have every foot of film that was exposed of me during all the time I worked for Lucas Film. So, they have this library of images. And they can mine it with artificial intelligence for a position of my face, for the light, for whatever. And then I put little balls on my face and I say the words. And then they take that part and they stick it in that part, but it's perfect. It's not like the Photoshopping de-aging, it's my actual face at that actual age. Made me feel old. 'Was the PG-13 rating created specifically for Temple of Doom?' Yes, because it was too damn scary for 12 year olds. 'Did Phoebe ever try and take Indy's hat?' No. No. She would never do that. 'Who tells the dirtiest f***ing jokes? You or s***head Phoebe?' I think I do. I win."

May 31, 2023
KINOWETTER
Harrison Ford "Grateful. Grateful that I still have the opportunity to play this character one more time to round out the audience's experience with him. To see him at the end of his string, so to speak. To see him down and be revivified by his relationship with this character, the character of Helena. And I just thought it was a brilliant script, and I really thought it would be a treat for the audience. And I hope it turns out to be just that."
Phoebe Waller-Bridge "She does know an awful lot. But I think what fascinates me about Helena is that she put that knowledge to misuse, and she decided to use it for her own, well to make money really. And then she sort of discarded her knowledge not realizing how important or precious it is. And I think Indy knows how precious his knowledge is, and is trying to impart that desperately to the generations that come after him, and they frustratingly don't get it. And I think that's a great conflict between him and Helena, is that she does get it and she inspires him because she gets it, but she's using it in the wrong way. Which is a perfect setup for them."
James Mangold "It was a joy to shoot (in Morocco) and the people welcomed us, and the city's so vibrant, and the food is so excellent."
Harrison Ford "It was a great experience. I had been there before and I was really happy to be back. And it's difficult to shoot there of course, the crowded streets and the medinas and everything. But it's so beautiful to see on, it's so unvisited in film. It was a fresh, I think, environment for the story to be set."
Boyd Holbrook "It's the one (franchise) everybody loves, it's the one that's been here the longest and with the same characters. Really nothing like it. It makes you want to go out and go on adventures as a kid."
Mads Mikkelsen "And not just us. Our kids who watched it, right, and can watch it again and again. Our parents, so it must have done something right. And me as well."
Boyd Holbrook "Yeah. I mean, it came out when I was born, so I'm the fan. It's wild."
Mads Mikkelsen "It's never another day at the office. When they build sets like that, you have to come in and just go around and touch stuff for a little while before you come in and start working, because you're gonna spend time touching stuff. You have to get this close and even then, damn, it's fake. They're so good at it, you know. And it just helps us tremendously. There's no expensive spell, it's just here we are, we're in a cave."
Boyd Holbrook "There's the whole thing of the surrealness of loving the characters in the world, and then now, wait a second, I'm in that world. I'm a different relationship to it. That is there in the beginning, and like Mads is saying, then it shifts to, you know, the marathon that you're gonna go on and do this. The focus that you have to have for such a long period of time. But it doesn't get boring, that's for sure."
Mads Mikkelsen "It's like, it's him (Ford as Indy). It is him, and I have to kill him. That's my job."
Boyd Holbrook "(My character is) not the sharpest knife in the drawer, probably. You know, I had a hard time, it seems very simple on page to play a bad guy, but then you have to wrap your head around why are they here, why is he, you know, in this ideology. And then that's the great thing about acting that I love, is that you get to break down these people and find out that he just wants to belong somewhere. He's seeking approval from, you know, a father figure. It can still have a deep sense of, you know, humanity in a person, even though that they're these terrible people. And that's just what I love about my job that I get to do, and get to go to work every day. But yeah, he definitely makes the wrong decision, picks the wrong team."
Mads Mikkelsen "We were this close."
Ethann Isidore "It was amazing. I felt like I was in a movie, and then I was thinking, this is because I'm in a movie! And that was pretty amazing. And I loved being in Morocco, in Fez. We shot in Medina and it was amazing. Well, (it began when) I was going back from school. I've done some short films before, but this is my first full length movie. And I was going back from school, and my mom told me that my manager called her telling her that I had to do an audition for a big adventure movie, an American one. So I was really happy, and I went to Paris to do the audition, and some days later they called us, telling us we had to go to London to meet the director, because he wanted to see me. So we went to London. I did the second part of the audition with James Mangold, and then two days later, Mathilde Snodgrass the casting director called us telling us that I was going to play in Indiana Jones 5 officially. And we cried and yelled, and then we watched the saga. I loved working with (Phoebe). She's very nice. She's always making jokes, and I don't know, there's something about her, she's very smart and she makes jokes all the time, and she knows what she's doing. And when she acts she's a total different person, but it's amazing. The first time I met (Ford) he was very nice, and he made me feel in my element. So I was very happy about it. Well, the first day it felt really weird because it was like seeing a guy you haven't seen for years. Because I was watching his movies, but I never saw him for real. And now he was in front of me, and he is Indiana Jones! And I was like, I met Indiana Jones, how is it possible?"