Helena's casting happened when Waller-Bridge was invited by Lucasfilm Ltd. Director James Mangold and co-writers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth aimed to make Helena a different female lead than the archetype Karen Allen's Marion Ravenwood established in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Her surname was released alongside the unveiling of her first action figure on the Hasbro Pulse Indiana Jones Fanstream on January 11, 2023. The character's forename and theme music were revealed by composer John Williams during his Septemperformance at the Hollywood Bowl. Helena Shaw was portrayed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, a role which was written with her in mind. Phoebe Waller-Bridge plays Helena in the film. She's many, many things.' ― John Williams Behind the scenes ' She's an adventuress and she's also a femme fatale. Although Jones couldn't understand her pursuit of a device which had driven Basil crazy, events conspired to embroil the two on an adventure around the world together involving the dial. In 1969, she journeyed to Manhattan and sought out Jones, on the cusp of academic retirement, to inquire after an object that the archaeologist and her father had encountered on board a train twenty-five years earlier where Voller was also present. Jürgen Voller, a former World War II Nazi scientist brought across to the US that worked for NASA. By October 1965, Helena was a person of interest whose file was accessible to Dr. įrom Oxford, England and born on March 12, 1939, Helena Shaw was the daughter of Basil, a friend of Indiana Jones who was Helena's godparent but became estranged from her around 1951 and wasn't present when Basil passed away. Some of it's gambling debt and some-' Helena: ' Thank you, Teddy!' ― Teddy Kumar and Helena Shaw, after Indiana Jones accuses the latter of selling her soul. When Helena remembered the dial, she sought out her estranged godfather in 1969 and they were pulled into an adventure across the globe together to reunite the device with its other half. Her father died soon after but Helena's own pursuit of archaeology led to her taking up a disreputable lifestyle as a con artist, drawing the attention of the CIA, and convinced herself that money was all that mattered even after she formed an enduring partnership with a ten year old street thief in Marrakesh. Helena Shaw, affectionately nicknamed ' Wombat' as a child, was the archaeologist daughter of Basil, a longtime friend of Indiana Jones who was the woman's godfather.ĭespite their affection for each other, Jones fell out of Helena's life around 1951, when she was twelve, following an argument between Jones and Basil over a section of an ancient mechanism that they had recovered during World War II. Indiana Jones: ' I'm her godfather.' Helena Shaw: ' He's mildly related.' ― Indiana Jones and Helena Shaw

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