Speaking ahead of the 2025 Game Awards, Troy Baker, the man behind Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and nominated in the Best Performance category, caught up with Lucasfilm to discuss the role, his uncertainty at taking it (“Tom, to his credit, saw something in me that I didn’t see in myself”), the need to be authentic (“If there’s a trick, then it feels false”) and his admiration for Harrison Ford (“He’s just responding to everything that’s in front of him”). Here, he discusses meeting the great man at last years awards.
After their moment onstage together last year, Baker spoke with Ford and admitted that the role was the most difficult one he’s performed so far.
“He asked, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I had to be you for three years!’ And he just flashed that smile and those blue eyes. The breadth of his work, the dedication that he has to it, but also just the love of doing it — it is really something remarkable.”
Baker has been a fan of Indiana Jones since he saw Raiders of the Lost Ark at a young age. (Probably too young, he often admits.) And as a fan of history as well, the actor appreciates the depth of Indiana’s knowledge the most out of all his trademark traits.
“The hat just makes him look cool. And the whip sure does come in handy, but at the end of the day, it’s really that knowledge that is his biggest weapon… He’s an academic, but he’s not like this erudite person who is just nothing but knowledge.”
