Paul was such a suave, cunning villain as Belloq! You wanted to hate the guy, but he was just so cool and sophisticated, you had to kind of admire him!
He was a shadowy reflection of Indy, indeed. I've always loved villains that are essentially even matches for the protagonist. And how he wasn't truly evil, he just chose the wrong friends. Same with Elsa in The Last Crusade
Wow, so cool. I think people forget how much he added to the movie. He was the perfect nemesis for Indy. I don't think Raiders would have been as legendary as it is if Belloq hadn't been the bad guy.
It's quite surprising that his career didn't take off in a big way considering he was the third billing in the biggest grossing film of its year, one of the biggest of all time and a widely acknowledged classic. He's worked a lot but he didn't become a big name in the way Alan Rickman, for instance, did after Die Hard. There was an episode of Pointless where 100 people had to name actors in Raiders of the Lost Ark and nobody said Paul Freeman, which made him a pointless answer.
Fabulous actor ! "Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless !!! "
Ah, ha-ha! "Ate the fly"---I just re-watched 'Raiders' and, yes, in the scene where Indy threatens to blow up the Ark, you can see a fly land on Belloq's mouth and stay there for a few seconds, but Paul Freeman didn't even flinch. A total pro, and a great foil for Indiana Jones.
What a humble fella, he was so deferential to the script writers when asked about what he brought to the role but had already given us an insight to his superb contribution when he was previously asked about the 'Tent' scene. Can you imagine,today, any high ranking Hollywood director trusting the two main supporting actors of a multi million dollar project to; 'go away and generate your own scene'? ......''Jones; do you realise what the Ark is?...It's a transmitter! A radio for speaking to God..''.. At which point the audience shift around in their seats and have to reassure themselves that they're just in a theatre watching an action movie.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD Considering practical effects are a lot more expensive and are a lot more riskier, regardless of your view, CGI and practical effects are just tools! Tools! Not a life support system for the film! What’s more important? The pretty candy-for-the-eye practical effects or the mother fucking story and characters that carry the film?
I remember meeting him at my local con, I was a huge power rangers fan would watch the movie back to back, had the chance to meet him, he was such a humble down to earth gentlemen, couldn't wish to of met a nicer guy
Thank you Paul. I was 12 when I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Saturday after opening night. Paul performed the charming but nefarious character of Belloq to perfection... When a film can make you feel like you're 12 everytime you watch it, you know you're in the presence of a timeless masterpiece...
There’s just something about him that just radiates…every since the first time I ever laid eyes upon him decades ago…sheesh…such a handsome man and the perfect villain to love in Raiders…also, thoroughly enjoyed him in ‘Bribery and Corruption’…
I loved the first movie of the series, wasn't crazy about any other ones, but the first is one of my favorite movies of all time ... And he made an awesome bad guy in the movie, his character wasn't pure evil either, he was intelligent and had some heart, although he did try to kill Indy in the opening scene, the bastard!!! :)
Just watched the movie for the first time in years, and Mr. Freeman is the perfect foil for Prof. Jones. If you don't believe me, watch the next three in the series.
I've watched the next three. Temple of Doom and Last Crusade are good (Temple is, if anything, underrated), Last Crusade is probably too close to repeating the formula of Raiders but Connery and Julian Glover are very good in it. The fourth one should NEVER have been made because the momentum had long gone.
I'm so excited that he mentioned When I'm 64!! It is my new favorite movie and if I ever meet him or have any sort of exchange with him, it will be 100% pertaining to that film.
Remember watching this in 1982 on TV I was 6 and never got over the end scene with the melting face but loved this and The Last Crusade with connery as Indy's dad
Best Indy villain by far. He and Indy could have been a great Luke / Vader - Moriarty / Holmes - Bond / Blofeld pairing over several movies. A shame his head exploded…
I'm an American but I lived in London for awhile. Freeman is from Herts, north of London. I don't know much about British accents. He does not seem to have a strong English accent...it almost sounds like a mid-Altantic accent.
That's probably because he's spent a lot of time in America and picked it up. He once said "My parents came from Camden Town, so I used to have a North London accent - that was my real voice. It's easy to slip back into the dialect, though, and nice to get back into it - it's like coming home."
One plot hole in Raiders of the Lost Ark: at the end when Jones tells the girl to keep her eyes shut during the Ark opening, Jones knows enough to do this because as we've seen he's studied the Bible stories, but then how is it that Belloq-who's also a biblical scholar we assume-is seemingly unaware of this tidbit? I always wondered about that but I have a few theories. 1. Belloq was so arrogant that he thought he himself wouldn't have to close his eyes. 2. Belloq didn't believe the story that one must shut their eyes during the Ark opening. 3. Belloq perhaps missed learning that biblical fact. Also I always wondered why did Jones want the Ark reopened and researched back in the States, after he saw what kind of paranormal devastation the Ark could do? Why does he call the government officials fools for putting the Ark in storage? I would think that after he witnessed what the Ark is capable of, that putting it into deep storage would be the smartest thing they could do! The mere fact that the officials are putting the Ark into tight security hiding proves that they're not fools at all, but that they actually seriously believed Jones's account of what the Ark did to the nazis and the island! Still, I love the Indiana Jones movies. The first two films are the best!
I wondwred that too perhaps he did was overcome completely by curiosity and the prospect of opening a gateway to God that it overtook any sense of self preservation. Kind of like in the film Nope, where the artsy fartsy film maker sacrifices his own life to get the perfect shot of the inside of the Jean Jacket creature. You see belloq kind of aware of Toht and Deitrict being melted alive either side of of him, he kind of turns to acknowledge it but turns back to staring into the ark almost in a trance like state. He sees the consequence of looking into the ark but continues anyway, like a moth to a flame.
"You choose the wrong friends. This time it will cost you." Are we to assume that Jones and Belloq were once good friends, but that Belloq turned out to be a bad guy a la Matrix and Bennet? Unfortunately the films never go into how Jones and Belloq knew each other.
I know no one cares but if Paul freeman came to my house along with Harrison Ford, Michael Keaton, Karen Allen, Jim Carrey, and a number of actors and we threw a party, that would be the tits!
I always thought that Lucas and Spielberg should have done an Indiana Jones film that was a direct sequel to Raiders-the film could open with the story of how Jones and the girl got off the island, and then a story about the Ark's power getting loose in the middle of an american big city and Jones having to perform some kind of exorcism and battle american nazi agents. I always thought that a film like that would've been more what Indiana Jones fans would have wanted. P.S. there could even have been a flashback scene with Charlton Heston in a cameo as Moses!
This is why they should get Lucas film and Disney to employ people like freeman to consult on the franchise. If they did this they wouldn't of been made the abomination, that is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull fuck.
Paul was such a suave, cunning villain as Belloq! You wanted to hate the guy, but he was just so cool and sophisticated, you had to kind of admire him!
very much like a modern Bond Villian... he's likeable, handsome, cunning, but absolutely deadly
He was a shadowy reflection of Indy, indeed. I've always loved villains that are essentially even matches for the protagonist. And how he wasn't truly evil, he just chose the wrong friends. Same with Elsa in The Last Crusade
Wow, so cool. I think people forget how much he added to the movie. He was the perfect nemesis for Indy. I don't think Raiders would have been as legendary as it is if Belloq hadn't been the bad guy.
It's quite surprising that his career didn't take off in a big way considering he was the third billing in the biggest grossing film of its year, one of the biggest of all time and a widely acknowledged classic. He's worked a lot but he didn't become a big name in the way Alan Rickman, for instance, did after Die Hard. There was an episode of Pointless where 100 people had to name actors in Raiders of the Lost Ark and nobody said Paul Freeman, which made him a pointless answer.
He was absolutely gorgeous. Still is rather handsome.
Fabulous actor ! "Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless !!! "
AND...he swallowed a fly!
Ah, ha-ha! "Ate the fly"---I just re-watched 'Raiders' and, yes, in the scene where Indy threatens to blow up the Ark, you can see a fly land on Belloq's mouth and stay there for a few seconds, but Paul Freeman didn't even flinch. A total pro, and a great foil for Indiana Jones.
Freeman seems like a wonderful guy. I'm so grateful to see him doing well and feeling supported for such a great role.
Although Belloq was the villain Paul Freeman gave him enough charm to be not totally hated by the audience
What a humble fella, he was so deferential to the script writers when asked about what he brought to the role but had already given us an insight to his superb contribution when he was previously asked about the 'Tent' scene.
Can you imagine,today, any high ranking Hollywood director trusting the two main supporting actors of a multi million dollar project to; 'go away and generate your own scene'?
......''Jones; do you realise what the Ark is?...It's a transmitter! A radio for speaking to God..''..
At which point the audience shift around in their seats and have to reassure themselves that they're just in a theatre watching an action movie.
Nice interview. I like it when the interviewer asks a question, waits for the answer, and doesn't interrupt.
You need to look at it again, Paul - it still looks BETTER than CGI!
I agree. Too much CGI in modern films. Films like Raiders had to try a bit harder in those days without the easy solution of CGI.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD
Considering practical effects are a lot more expensive and are a lot more riskier, regardless of your view, CGI and practical effects are just tools! Tools! Not a life support system for the film! What’s more important? The pretty candy-for-the-eye practical effects or the mother fucking story and characters that carry the film?
Totally
I saw this movie in 1981 with my dad and brother. I still remember being scared when the guy'd face melted in the end.
I remember meeting him at my local con, I was a huge power rangers fan would watch the movie back to back, had the chance to meet him, he was such a humble down to earth gentlemen, couldn't wish to of met a nicer guy
Thank you Paul. I was 12 when I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Saturday after opening night. Paul performed the charming but nefarious character of Belloq to perfection... When a film can make you feel like you're 12 everytime you watch it, you know you're in the presence of a timeless masterpiece...
Belloq was a cool character, loved the first Indiana Jones movie !! One of my favorites !
Fabulous actor!
Great actor...awesome Villian!
He did such a great job!
I loved him as Ivan Ozze!
What a cool, open guy and superb actor
Paul is a great English actor,Londoner. played a great villian.
There’s just something about him that just radiates…every since the first time I ever laid eyes upon him decades ago…sheesh…such a handsome man and the perfect villain to love in Raiders…also, thoroughly enjoyed him in ‘Bribery and Corruption’…
Ivan Ooze!
Wow. I was just a kid when I saw this. Paul's a legend.
This is history.
I love him as Roy in " When i'm 64 "
Such a great movie.
This is the same guy who play Ivan Ooze in ‘Power Rangers’ (1995).
I loved the first movie of the series, wasn't crazy about any other ones, but the first is one of my favorite movies of all time ... And he made an awesome bad guy in the movie, his character wasn't pure evil either, he was intelligent and had some heart, although he did try to kill Indy in the opening scene, the bastard!!! :)
Love his character and Paul. He seems like such a sweet guy, I'd love to meet him one day ♡
Just watched the movie for the first time in years, and Mr. Freeman is the perfect foil for Prof. Jones. If you don't believe me, watch the next three in the series.
I've watched the next three. Temple of Doom and Last Crusade are good (Temple is, if anything, underrated), Last Crusade is probably too close to repeating the formula of Raiders but Connery and Julian Glover are very good in it. The fourth one should NEVER have been made because the momentum had long gone.
Paul is brilliant as Belloq. My favorite film is Raiders of the lost ark.
I'm so excited that he mentioned When I'm 64!! It is my new favorite movie and if I ever meet him or have any sort of exchange with him, it will be 100% pertaining to that film.
Good I loved that film "When I'm 64" Shame it was taken down from RUclips.
I remember watching “Die Hard” when it came out and thinking Alan Rickman took a page out of Freeman’s book to portray Hans Gruber.
too bad didnt ask about the Crystal Skull. Would love to hear his blunt opinion.
Remember watching this in 1982 on TV I was 6 and never got over the end scene with the melting face but loved this and The Last Crusade with connery as Indy's dad
Best Indy villain by far. He and Indy could have been a great Luke / Vader - Moriarty / Holmes - Bond / Blofeld pairing over several movies. A shame his head exploded…
He was incredible in Falcon Crest too
Paull Freeman is awesomely wonderful and well done him for not having stupid cosmetic surgery!
I'm an American but I lived in London for awhile. Freeman is from Herts, north of London. I don't know much about British accents. He does not seem to have a strong English accent...it almost sounds like a mid-Altantic accent.
That's probably because he's spent a lot of time in America and picked it up. He once said "My parents came from Camden Town, so I used to have a North London accent - that was my real voice. It's easy to slip back into the dialect, though, and nice to get back into it - it's like coming home."
The bug mystery is finally solved.
When I’m Sixty-Four is a terrific movie!
Did you all interview him in outer space?
One plot hole in Raiders of the Lost Ark: at the end when Jones tells the girl to keep her eyes shut during the Ark opening, Jones knows enough to do this because as we've seen he's studied the Bible stories, but then how is it that Belloq-who's also a biblical scholar we assume-is seemingly unaware of this tidbit? I always wondered about that but I have a few theories. 1. Belloq was so arrogant that he thought he himself wouldn't have to close his eyes. 2. Belloq didn't believe the story that one must shut their eyes during the Ark opening. 3. Belloq perhaps missed learning that biblical fact. Also I always wondered why did Jones want the Ark reopened and researched back in the States, after he saw what kind of paranormal devastation the Ark could do? Why does he call the government officials fools for putting the Ark in storage? I would think that after he witnessed what the Ark is capable of, that putting it into deep storage would be the smartest thing they could do! The mere fact that the officials are putting the Ark into tight security hiding proves that they're not fools at all, but that they actually seriously believed Jones's account of what the Ark did to the nazis and the island! Still, I love the Indiana Jones movies. The first two films are the best!
I wondwred that too perhaps he did was overcome completely by curiosity and the prospect of opening a gateway to God that it overtook any sense of self preservation.
Kind of like in the film Nope, where the artsy fartsy film maker sacrifices his own life to get the perfect shot of the inside of the Jean Jacket creature.
You see belloq kind of aware of Toht and Deitrict being melted alive either side of of him, he kind of turns to acknowledge it but turns back to staring into the ark almost in a trance like state. He sees the consequence of looking into the ark but continues anyway, like a moth to a flame.
My favourite role he had was Ivan Ooze.
Much respect.
Dr Ooze from the first Powers Rangers movie
In "When i'm 64" he is wonderfull
I just remember him as Ivan Ooze.
He looks like Walter Cronkite.
Jones!!!!!!!
"You choose the wrong friends. This time it will cost you." Are we to assume that Jones and Belloq were once good friends, but that Belloq turned out to be a bad guy a la Matrix and Bennet? Unfortunately the films never go into how Jones and Belloq knew each other.
An indiana jones prequel trilogy that takes place before the original trilogy
Whoo! Where's my autograph book?!
You're gonna give mercenaries a bad name.(fly enters his mouth!)
He will always be Ivan Ooze to me
Hard to believe he was the judge in A Very English Scandal...
Closeup dramatic acting against vast scenics: That was David Lean's gift as well as Spielberg's.
"Oh, put a sock in it, Z! Ten minutes out of the egg, and I'm already listening to one of your lectures."
"Now you're gettin' nasty"
Oh they call him Bellosh... lol
I know no one cares but if Paul freeman came to my house along with Harrison Ford, Michael Keaton, Karen Allen, Jim Carrey, and a number of actors and we threw a party, that would be the tits!
@Mr Brownstone once I’m am an a list celebrity, they’ll probably all be dead
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THE OOZE IS BACK
As the fly lands on his mouth the line he utters is....your gonna give mercenaries a bad name!!
I always thought that Lucas and Spielberg should have done an Indiana Jones film that was a direct sequel to Raiders-the film could open with the story of how Jones and the girl got off the island, and then a story about the Ark's power getting loose in the middle of an american big city and Jones having to perform some kind of exorcism and battle american nazi agents. I always thought that a film like that would've been more what Indiana Jones fans would have wanted. P.S. there could even have been a flashback scene with Charlton Heston in a cameo as Moses!
I am a shadowy reflection of you
'I am a shadowy reflection of you'
Great guy. However - he should have mentioned his role as Colin in The Long Good Friday!
Bloody brilliant film!
Ivan fucking Ooze!
We hope that Mr. Freeman had spent his Birthday the past month. He has 77 years old.
Ohh where's my autograph book
I don't see how he couldn't have ate the fly, that scene looked like it was one continuous take and the last you see of the fly is on his bottom lip..
Nice
Ivan Ooze!!
Ivan Ooze 😍😍
I love you
Ivan ooze!
The dogs of war
Where the power rangers wow where's my. Autograph book
This is why they should get Lucas film and Disney to employ people like freeman to consult on the franchise. If they did this they wouldn't of been made the abomination, that is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull fuck.
I'd much prefer his French accent than his British.....
LOL i love his voice
there is no Raiders or Indiana Jones without George Lucas... he's the man behind it all
Ivan Ooze!