![]() They were lying on the floor listening to one of the original cassette players, this was the first time they'd come out. So I went to meet them, him and George, who were in a little brick bungalow on the old Universal site, which was just off the main drag. Some stations refused to show it.īut anyway, Stephen saw it and thought I might be right. Some of it was shown on PBS in the US and some of it wasn't. And it was a big scandal because the Saudis got very upset about it. It was about the actual killing of a Saudi Arabian princess by what turned out to be her grandfather. But Stephen had seen me in a very scandalous docudrama I did in 1980. It turned out that they had already cast the part of Belloc to an Italian actor called Giancarlo Giannini. Can you go over there?” I was happy to do that, Obviously. Paul Freeman: I was just finishing a film called The Dogs of War in Belize, and my agent said, “Spielberg wants to see you for this movie in LA when you finish. How Paul became Belloqįreeman describes his memorable first meeting with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, plus the scene that convinced him Indiana Jones was worth doing. But what we were meant to be looking at coming onto the ark was nothing at all. ![]() It was very, very confusing as well, and you had no indication really of, Is this good enough? Am I doing the right thing? Does this work? Until I saw the movie cut together and then it made sense. So Stephen stood on the floor yelling at us: “Turn left! Turn right! Look down on the ark! It looks wonderful! It looks beautiful! Now it's gonna eat your head.” There was no indication while we were filming it of what we were actually seeing. What we didn't know was how the actual scene would be filmed of opening the ark. It was very unpleasant with straws up your nose, and in your mouth to breathe. You had props on your neck to hold your head up. ![]() In those days, you were covered in this silicon plaster stuff, which set on your head and got very heavy. We had to go and have the false heads made, which is much simpler. Paul Freeman: Well I knew that my head would blow up from early on. But for Paul Freeman, filming it was also a particularly difficult challenge. In a film full of iconic moments, the death of Belloq and his Nazi collaborators is perhaps the most famous scene. Read on for six highlights from our interviews with the stars of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. ![]() “I don't have a problem with a couple of snakes,” Allen tells Inverse, “but I do have a problem with 6000 snakes all in one room being tossed at me while I have nothing on my legs or my feet. Separate conversations with the two actors covered everything from how they joined the cast of Raiders of the Lost Ark to drinking too much cheap Tunisian wine during production to working with snakes. To celebrate this historic anniversary, Inverse spoke to two of the movie’s stars: Paul Freeman (Indiana’s rival archeologist René Belloq who’s hired by the Nazis) and Karen Allen (Indie’s old flame who joins him on his adventure). ( Raiders of the Lost Ark was such a huge hit it played in some theaters for over a year.) The classic film that united Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and gave us arguably the greatest opening scene in any movie ever, premiered in theaters on June 12, 1981. Wanna feel old? Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark come out 40 years ago, today! ![]()
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