In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, actress Karen Allen revealed her dissatisfaction with her role in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
The 71-year-old actress reprised her role as Marion Ravenwood, but she says the final cut didn’t do justice to her original intentions. She was dissatisfied with the story while reading the Dial of Destiny screenplay. Allen told The Hollywood Reporter she thought she would be a significant part of the film and that “just wasn’t the direction they decided to go.”
She said she could have been knocked over with a feather when she first read it.
Allen speculated that the story’s issues might be explained by the fact that Mutt had been slain in battle and caused tension between Marion and Indy.
The Indiana Jones franchise actress noted that her character was given a more significant part in the script before James Mangold replaced Steven Spielberg as director.
She said she didn’t have the chance to read any of those scripts when Spielberg was still going to direct the film, but she did know that Marion was much more involved in the story at that juncture.
She had anticipated some sort of transformation, but not this particular one.
After Steven announced his intention to stand down as director, they had a conversation in which he told Allen that she would love working with James Mangold.
“Oh, terrific,” she thought. She let it be known that she was aware of James’s plan to bring in new authors and a new director for a new perspective. However, she said that she was unsure of what to anticipate.
It was inevitable that there would be a fifth. She said they had just wrapped production on the fourth episode when she revealed plans were already in the works for a possible fifth and final installment.
“So, sure,” she said. She was always expecting she would be a part of it, and she is, but in a somewhat “different capacity than I had originally envisioned.”
