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Madrid (EFE) “to the changes due to age” that he has experienced in his own life, according to what he told EFE.
“There is no way to escape from the reality you see on the screen,” Ford acknowledged in an interview at the Cannes Film Festival, where he presented this film accompanied by his co-stars, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen and Boyd Holbrook, and the film’s director, James Mangold.
Assume your age naturally
But far from bothering him, at 80 (in about 81 days), Ford not only assumes his age naturally, but it was precisely the fact that the writers adapted Indiana Jones to the passage of time that interested him most in the story. .
“For me what was interesting was the development of the characters by the writers, which has brought emotional complexity to the character,” explains the actor, who assures that for him the chapter of Indiana Jones closes with this fifth installment.
A film that took nine months to shoot, in five countries and in the midst of the pandemic, and which places the action in 1969, with an Indiana about to retire from his teaching position, when his goddaughter Helen Shaw (Waller Waller) suddenly appears. -Bridge) and with her a character from the past returns, the Nazi Jurgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen).
The protagonists travel around the world -something common in Indy stories- to find before Voller the Archimedean Dial, a device that supposedly has the power to locate entrances to other times.
And along the way they meet old friends, like the Egyptian Sallah (John Rhys Davies), from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981), or new ones, like Renaldo, a fisherman played by Antonio Banderas, or the young Frenchman Ethann Isidore, who somehow inherits the role of Short Round in “The Temple of Doom” (1984).
Without forgetting Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), with whom he began a relationship in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and who reappeared in “The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008) to become his wife.
Fifth installment without Steven Spielberg
A film in which for the first time Steven Spielberg is not behind the camera to narrate the adventures of the archaeologist. This fifth installment has been directed by James Mangold (“Logan” or “Le Mans’66”), a “remarkable” filmmaker, in Ford’s words, for whom working with him has been something “unique”.
“He is very clear about what he wants and brings great energy,” the actor highlighted.
Along with Ford, an actress as far from the world of Indiana Jones as the British Phoebe Waller-Bridge, known as the creator and star of “Fleabag” (2016), an addition that has brought “a new energy and a modern touch” to the saga, in Ford’s opinion.
Getting into Indiana Jones has been like “fulfilling a dream you’ve had all your life” for the actress. “When I was a child I even imagined myself in the world of Indiana Jones,” the actress said excitedly.
“I will treasure every second because I had the best time in my life and the people I worked with, in particular Harrison, are people who change you when you meet them, in your career and in your life,” he added.
Something with which Mikkelsen agreed. “It’s inspiring to see the enthusiasm and passion that he can still have. None of us would be here if Harrison hadn’t wanted to do this and he was the first to arrive every day,” recalled the Danish actor.
For Mikkelsen, participating “in one of the mythical sagas of Hollywood and of the history of cinema” has meant a mixture of “happiness and a very big challenge”.
“I don’t know if there is a word that combines fear and excitement at the same time. It’s like the feeling of a roller coaster and having butterflies in your stomach,” added the star of films like “Another Round” (2020) or “The Hunt” (2012).
On an eventual continuation of Indiana Jones, Ford affirms emphatically: “Not for me.”