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Indiana Jones and the Oscar Winner
No, we're not talking about Sean Connery. We're talking about the best news so far with regards to the makeup of the fourth Indiana Jones.
Monday, March 19, 2007 at 12:01 AM
By Dennis Michael
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Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com
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At the recent Armani, Oscar weekend private event in Los Angeles
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It takes a formidable actress to impersonate the legendary Katharine Hepburn and come out not only with her reputation intact, but with a Best Supporting Actress Oscar to boot. That's the exceptional case with Cate Blanchett, who scored the honor for her work in The Aviator, in between Best Actress nominations for Elizabeth in 1999 and Notes on a Scandal this season.
Kate Allen was marvelously feisty in Raiders of the Los Ark, and Kate Capshaw so captured the eye of director Steven Spielberg in The Temple of Doom that she became his wife in 1991. But can you name the woman who co-starred with Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Exactly. Sean Connery as pops was so the surrogate girlfriend in that one that the role of the gal was thrown away to someone by the name of Alison Doody.
All this to say that Jones has never quite had a female foil of the ilk of Cate Blanchett. If consummated, as the Hollywood Reporter is claiming, this negotiation would be a brilliant move on the part of Spielberg and Lucas; especially if David Koepp's script gives her some good zingers about the age difference. In May, Blanchett turns 38; in July, Ford hits the big 6-5.
Now granted, FilmStew is assuming there would be a romantic element to the pairing of Ford and Blanchett. Given the top secret nature of Koepp's screenplay, all her publicist was saying on Friday is that Blanchett was indeed in negotiations. But if the woman who nailed Hepburn can do justice to this flick the way Hepburn herself managed opposite Bogie in The African Queen, it may really not matter how old Ford looks on screen. Just be thankful Paramount are not in negotiations with Anne Heche.
[Shooting is set to begin in June in Los Angeles and on location around the world for the May 22nd, 2008 releasing fourth Indy film. Blanchett will join the archaeologist adventurer after she completes shooting on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She’s also popping in to do voice work for Wes Anderson’s animated film The Fantastic Mr. Fox.]
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