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"We all started out as these kids who didn't have much worldly experience," Allen told PEOPLE at the premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny."
Karen Allen is taking a nostalgic trip down memory lane. While attending the premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" at The Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, the 71-year-old actress reminisced about reuniting with her "Raiders of the Lost Ark" family and shared her experience of working alongside Hollywood legends Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg.
"What can I say? We have a lot of fun together," Allen told, discussing how Ford, 80, and Spielberg, 76, have evolved since they filmed the first Indiana Jones film in the 1980s.
Detailing the growth and maturity over the past four decades, Allen shared, "When we first worked together, we were both pretty young, but we've had marriages and children." She emphasized that the same can be said about Spielberg, stating, "We all started out as these kids who didn't have much worldly experience - who wanted to be actors or directors or whatever - and then suddenly we found ourselves in this extraordinary film."
Reflecting on their personal journeys, Allen added, "I think we've all kind of grown and matured and lived interesting lives along the way that have really affected who we are as people." The actress, who made her big screen debut in 1978's "Animal House," also discussed the impact her character Marion had on audiences.
"It took a while for me to really get that," she admitted. "I think it might have been 10 or 15 years after the film was made."
"I knew the film had been very successful, but I think it was the fans of the film who really started to convey to me how much the character had meant to them," she continued.
Allen added, "I don't think I really understood that in the beginning when the film was first released and even for years afterwards. But then these waves of appreciation for this character started to come towards me, and it helped me see something in it that I hadn't necessarily seen."
Starting her career as a theater actress and never envisioning herself in films, Allen also revealed that she didn't fully grasp the nature of the movie they were making when she and Ford filmed the original film.
"I don't know about him, but I don't know that I really understood what kind of film we were making, in a way," she told PEOPLE. "I had read the script, but I think I had something very different in my head in terms of what I thought we were doing."
Admitting that it started to click during filming, Allen continued, "I think we had a lot of appreciation for where we were finding ourselves. We were finding ourselves in the Sahara Desert. It was extraordinary."
"It affects so much of the storytelling when you're in these exotic, interesting places that you never imagined you would be in. And then you find yourself there, and you're working with each other, telling a story," she added. "So I think we had an awful lot of fun doing that."
"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" is set to be released in theaters on June 30th.
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