Phoebe Waller-Bridge has shared what it was like to witness Harrison Ford’s final performance as Indiana Jones.
Harrison, 80, has played the role of daring archaeologist for as long as the 37-year-old Fleabag actor has been alive. It’s been 42 years, to be exact.
So it’s no surprise that the Hollywood great had a few words to say as the closing scene of the latest film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which is currently in theatres.
But that wasn’t the moment Harrison had hoped for, as Phoebe described how it was both emotional and ‘absurd’, given what the Star Wars legend was wearing at the time.
‘There was emotion,’ she recalled, after affectionately dubbing Harrison a ‘softie’, while speaking to Greg James on his Radio 1 Breakfast Show this morning.
‘But in the final scene, we’re both in wetsuits in a paddling pool in Pinewood,’ she laughed.
‘We had massive 1960s diving goggles on, and it was one of the more surreal days.
‘And Harrison was sort of drawn out of his paddling pool and put on top of a ladder – dripping wet in a wetsuit – and all the crew came round and everyone was sort of emotional, and he was up there in his wetsuit and just said thank you so much to everyone.’
With her characteristic humour, the Fleabag star continued, ‘It was extremely emotional, but there was something so ludicrous about it.’
The comedian, writer, and all-around superhero, who sprang to stardom when her one-woman Edinburgh Fringe show took the theatre, and then the TV world, by storm, also revealed how frightened she was to be a part of such a momentous production.
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In one of their first moments together, she told Harrison that if she was ‘in her mind’ and ‘a little crap’ (sure, give us another one, Phoebe!) he should tell her.
Harrison inquired as to why, to which she replied that this film – and you, Harrison – are, um, kind of a big thing.
So Harrison did nothing except ‘lovingly’ smack Phoebe over the head with his writing.
‘It helped so much, it was hysterical,’ Phoebe remembered. ‘And then he got up and squeezed my shoulder and went, “You’re doing great, kid.”‘
Awrh, stop.
