How Dial Of Destiny’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge Scared Harrison Ford With His Own Face

As you’ll recall from “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (or maybe not, since, judging from its shockingly soft box office, a whole bunch of folks skipped out on the adventuring archeologist’s last ride), the film opens with a flashback to 1944, where Indy and his colleague Basil Shaw (Toby Jones) attempt to recover the Archimedes-built relic of the title. The sequence largely employs a mixture of CG de-aging technology, but for one motorcycle bit, the make-up department devised a young Ford mask for the stuntman to wear.

At some point, Waller-Bridge, who plays Helena Shaw, Basil’s daughter and Indy’s goddaughter, ran across the mask and decided to play a prank on her co-star. She donned the fabricated face, and crashed Ford’s trailer while wearing it. How did this work out?

“It scared the crap out of him, actually,” she told Parade. “Even though that actually is only represented by him blinking three times and saying, ‘Get the hell out of my trailer.'”

Ford has a reputation for being a bit of a crank, especially if he’s making a movie he knows isn’t any good, so Waller-Bridge can thank director James Mangold for running an evidently harmonious set and crafting a movie worthy of its star’s approval. But from here on out, every single time she boards a private plane, she better check the cockpit before takeoff. Because payback is a b****, especially when it’s being dished out by a man who once parked an aircraft in a ditch.