Kelly Knox, writing at Lucasfilm.com, talks to Troy Baker, nominated for Best Performance at the 2025 Game Awards for his role in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, about why Indiana Jones was his hardest role yet.
What goes through your mind when you’re standing on stage in front of thousands of gamers and get the approval of Indiana Jones himself?
“‘Don’t pass out,’” Troy Baker says with a smile.
He’s nominated for Best Performance at this year’s Game Awards for his work in the globetrotting adventure game. It was a role that Baker initially declined, recommending other actors until performance capture director Tom Keegan changed Baker’s mind – even though they hadn’t worked together before.
“Tom, to his credit, saw something in me that I didn’t see in myself and I had to trust him,” Baker tells Lucasfilm.com. “He said, ‘I think there’s a natural thing that you can bring to this. I’m not looking for someone who can just do a great impression.’”
“Just Be Authentic”
Along those lines, Baker never felt like he needed to put on the hat or find a trick to get into character as Indiana Jones. “If there’s a trick, then it feels false,” he says. “One of my favorite things that Tom Keegan said was ‘Look, none of this is real. We are going to do the heavy lifting of placing you inside the world. All you have to do is just be authentic in this moment.’
“So one of my favorite scenes was when we were in Thailand. [Alessandra Mastronardi] and I are on this balcony and we’re just having this conversation about what happened between Indy and Marion. And that, to me, was just a conversation between two people. For us [as actors], the ‘Gina’ and the Indy-isms kind of left. It felt the most lived in because it was just us.”
Baker is as big of a Harrison Ford fan as anyone, crediting the icon’s genuine responses to his scenes and the other actors he plays against as just one of the reasons audiences love to watch him.
“What I love is that [Ford’s] body and his face get to the idea before the words do,” Baker says. “There’s a level of comprehension that happens, and we get to watch in real time, as that manifests and erupts effusively out of him.”
To quote Ford as Indy in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, “I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go.”
“To me, that is the way that Harrison Ford is as an actor,” Baker says. “He’s just responding to everything that’s in front of him. And I think that’s the way that I like to be as an actor.”
Read the article in full here. Unfortunately, Baker lost out at the Game Awards to Jennifer English for her role in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
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