Harrison Ford Playfully Smacked Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the Head With Rolled Up Script on ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Set: ‘It was Hysterical’
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Harrison Ford playfully smacked co-star Phoebe Waller-Bridge on her first day on the set of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” Waller-Bridge told the BBC on Friday.
The scene was set in a New York bar. “I was a little nervous. And I said to him, ‘If I get like, a little in my head, and if I’m just rubbish, at any point, you can tell me to go again.’ And he was like ‘You in your head, why?’ And I said, ‘Well, you know, it’s here.
And it’s with you.’ And then he just rolled up his script and just smacked me on the head with it and was like, ‘Does that help?,'” Waller-Bridge told the “Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James” show.
When James asked if the smack did help, Waller-Bridge said, “It helped so much. It was hysterical. And then he got up and squeezed my shoulder and went, ‘You’re doing great, kid.’ And that’s still a moment.” The “Fleabag” creator and actor added that there was “generosity” in being smacked on the head with a script. “It wasn’t like a violent act when people panicked – he was allowing me to feel comfortable.
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