Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is hitting theaters on June 30th as Harrison Ford wraps up his role as the ionic archeologist, Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is about Jones’s new adventure, accompanied by his goddaughter, Helena Shaw, as they find themselves going up against a former Nazi that works for NASA.
Variety interviewed Ford at the 69th Taormina Film Festival as he shared his thoughts on his favorite scene to film on set and on the writer’s strike.
Ford shared his favorite scene: “At first, it’s kind of black-and-white, because it’s 1944. And then all of a sudden, we end that part with an escape from a situation. And we find ourselves a hard cut to 1969. And we see the same man, manifestly the same man, wake up in a New York tenement apartment, and you know, he’s this lazy boy in his underwear with an empty glass in his hand. Because they’re playing god damn rock ‘n’ roll music.” Ford continued, “It was one of my favorite things I’ve ever done in a movie. And I did it to express his vulnerability and his age. Anyway, I think it’s a great sequence in a damn good movie.”
Then Ford addressed the writers on strike:
There needs to be greater justice throughout our society, both economic justice and every other form of it. And where things are out of balance, as long as there’s enough information to make appropriate choices, and there’s some room for settlement… I mean, enough information to be able to talk in a language that’s appropriate about what’s really going on. You know, we’re gonna suffer from not having a script. And it’s an economic situation: We don’t have a script here, and we’re going to war over it… over the movie. But we got to work together in all the crafts that make movies; just support each other when we can — and we should.
Make sure to check out Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in theaters on June 30th.
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