During a panel at MEGACON Orlando, hosted by Collider’s Arezou Amin, John Rhys-Davies was asked about which of his iconic characters he prefers playing between Gimli and Sallah, and shared his hopes for the future of his Indiana Jones character.
“I’ll tell you how I think Sallah ends up. I think he ends up like that wonderful fellow Waleed [Khaled] al-As’ad, who is the keeper of the museum in Palmyra. And when ISIS came or I think it was ISIS, he refused, he’d hidden all the treasures and he refused to give them out. And they said, if you don’t, we will kill you and he refused. And I think he was 82 years old and he was forced to kneel and they beheaded him. That’s a man protecting his culture. That’s a man protecting history. And I believe that’s the sort of man that Salah might have become.”
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