Holy crap!
Fans of each… Raiders just came on television and I SWEAR the guy at the start with Indy (where there are spiders all over his back) etc. Is AL SWEARENGEN. Seriously. (The actor who plays him of course)
Anybody own the DVD? Pop it in and verify!
BTW I looked on IMDB but it had nothing for me. BUT I SWEAR IT’S HIM!!!
You know the part - where Indy swaps the bag of sand for the golden statutette then the huge ball rolls after him. “Throw me the Idol!”
Am I nuts? Or is this guy just some look-a-like?
Thoughts?
The guy in raiders is Alfred Molina
FYI, he is also appearing as Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2
Al Molina?
Jeez! Doesn’t that guy look just fucking like Al Swearengen?
(And BTW yes GGW - I can work IMDB too - but it’s gasp not always right. When I said IMDB had nothing for me, I meant it wasn’t telling me what I wanted to know. Maybe next week you can teach me google! Whee!).
Sorry. I’m intoxicated - but Indy is kicking ass here.
Molina is one of the best interviews in the Indiana Jones making-of doc on the DVD box set Bonus disc. Raiders was his first movie and his anecdotes looking back as a “nobody” at the time are warm and funny.
Alfred Molin is one of those great, mostly unknown, character actors who are on my list of ‘people I’d cast in my film, if I could’.
Also on my list are people like Wallace Shawn and Jonathan Price (and unfortunately people like Paul Winfield and Michael Jeter)
I’ll just add that Robin Weigert, who plays Calamity Jane, looks exactly like this girl who was in my college sketch comedy troupe named Robin Weigert…
Hey, waaaaaaait a minute! 