Life on the Indiana Jones set is described by Mads Mikkelsen and Phoebe Waller-Bridge with…
Actor and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge claims that while working on the set of the most recent Indiana Jones movie, she spent the time by conversing with Harrison Ford and solving crossword puzzles.
“I feel like I had the great privilege of working with Harrison, but I also had the great privilege of doing crosswords and getting bored with Harrison, not with him, but as we got to sit together, and while you’re waiting for something to be set up, we got to chat,” Waller-Bridge told ABC News via Zoom. In the movie, she portrays Jones’s goddaughter. We had the opportunity to learn a little bit about one another’s lives. Getting to know Harrison personally seemed like one of the biggest treats of the movie, in my opinion.”
The fifth and last installment in the Indiana Jones series, which began with Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, is Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. George Lucas’s much-loved television series centers on an archaeologist who, while searching for antiquated artifacts, gets into conflicts with both the Soviet Union and the Nazis. Steven Spielberg directed the first four movies.
In this sixth movie, Waller-Bridge plays Indiana Jones, who meets up with his goddaughter Helena Shaw in 1969. The two of them must race against a former Nazi in order to locate a mysterious dial that allows them to travel back in time.
With Ford, Mads Mikkelsen, Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Boyd Holbrook, and Shaunette Renee Wilson in the cast, James Mangold takes over as director. Growing up in Denmark, Danish actor Mikkelsen—who plays the villain Jurgen Voller—saw a lot of his childhood spent with Indiana Jones. Mikkelsen claims, “I rented it on VHS along with my brother and five other movies.” “And since we had seen Indiana Jones five times, we skipped the other movies. It’s magnetic, that’s what it is. And neither my generation nor I have ever lost it.”
