When you made the original
Trilogy did you envisage down the line there would maybe be a closing chapter one day and
was it something you always kept quite an open mind about you know I never really thought about
it and it was kind of step by step on down the path and I didn't know where it was going or or
what when or if we'd ever get there I just made one movie at a time the first one I I knew that
there was a you know that if it turned out okay that we might make another one but four of them
never never would have thought that was possible and then after after a 15-year break one more
yeah yeah I because I always wanted to see this guy a more uh towards the end of his string you
know uh we we spent all this time with him as a young vigorous man I wanted to see the effect
you know the effect of age and time because this is about time this movie uh I wanted to see the
effect of all the things he's done who he's been how he's behaved on him at at at my a at
you know near my age and uh and uh to kind of not wrap up all the ends but emotionally uh register
this um this volume of time these experiences that we've all shared together and uh and I'm thrilled
to be able to bring this uh film to to the people that have enjoyed the others proud of this sucker
I'm proud of this guy for what he'd done what he'd done what I'd done he done me to script that done
observe the purpose you know and he done it good I need a banjo yeah you do but uh but it was what a
gift it was to me and to all of us to have this really powerful story underneath us I mean it's
always other passing of time and people say as we get older we become more like our fathers I know
I certainly am, with that in mind when playing Indy in this kind of film did you find yourself looking
to Sean Connery's kind of performance in any way to kind of help you craft your role and see where
Indy might be now you know I wasn't clever enough to even think about that but let's suppose I did
all right the other thing I but he's you know if your dad happens to be uh Sean Connery
that's its own damage yeah I mean it infuses you and you don't have to you know imitate
him it's just the experience of being with him uh gets in your gets in your bones yeah
I always think of the movie that moment that Ethann Isidore pilfers your father's watch
um from you is is it really I always love what you do with that moment because it's
like give me that that was my father's watch you and it and we really feel like like well
I said I mean he was supposed to have you know he's a pickpocket he's a he's a thief and I'm
took my watch but in the script it was my watch and what I said was that was my dad's watch
right yeah okay I mean you mentioned about the part well also the passing of time can be
quite sad and one of the things that's always Illuminating but what in a Time Community the
passing of time can be quite a sad thing and one of the things that's always kind
of illuminated and enriched that Indiana Jones films I think is humanity and I think subtly
they can be quite emotional kind of films I wonder James about bringing in the kind of
the the balance between kind of in a big budget and a big scale film that balance between giving
fans that pure entertainment but also having that kind of emotional undercurrent that
is that is my life's work um when I work on larger movies is trying to find a way
um there's so many whatever you'd call them tentpole movies franchises large scale
Financial entertainment Endeavors that don't seem to have an actual reason
other than people know these character's names and want to see them in another one and
um I I try to make sure to me I came up making movies about small movies about intimate with the
characters and so even when I find myself making a larger scale film like this with all the demands
you mentioned of entertainment and action and and choreography and spectacle you also part of what
makes the spectacle feel spectacular is that it's interspersed with humanity and human moments but
um I tend not to think that people are so you know first of all time passing
- you said something very interesting time passing is sad but it is it is all we have
um uh I mean time passing is that would make life sad because if time weren't passing I'd just be uh
videotape on the pause button and uh and um but that but sadness is a part of life and just like
intimate scenes make spectacle scenes more visible sad scenes make happier scenes feel more wonderful
and that um but I don't tend to think of scenes on emotional colors anyway I tend to think of them
um because sometimes characters on a screen sharing a moment of grief or shared sadness can
actually be incredibly warm um to see that these two people are comforting each other or finding
each other in that moment of grief so emotion and is all about and scenes is all about what
what the how the actors are connecting and the characters are connecting more importantly I guess
I just want to say because I mean obviously a huge Indy fan as a kid I just on behalf of everyone
from my website HeyUGuys my editors and all of our readers thank you for all of your Decades of
fantastic movies and these characters and what they mean to all of us it's been a pleasure oh
I thank you for saying so I'm just part of a um team of people that get together and make
these things and it's a powerful experience for me to have this opportunity you are but you also
you did something really miraculous with this character that uh that his contradictions and
uniqueness would there's no one else in the world who could have made this guy happen
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