In an interview with IndieWire, Karen Allen, the actress who played Marion Ravenwood in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” talked about her experiences on the film.

Allen said that she was initially excited to play Ravenwood because she thought the character had “one of the best introductions of a character” she had ever seen.

However, there was one particular scene that Allen was not happy with.

In the original script, Ravenwood was supposed to seduce René Belloq, played by Paul Freeman, in order to escape a Nazi camp in Cairo.

Both Allen and Freeman were uncomfortable with this scene and asked director Steven Spielberg to change it.

According to Allen, Spielberg was open to making the change and said, “Well, if you can come up with something better and you want to show it to me, we’ll shoot it.”

Allen and Freeman came up with an alternative plan in which Ravenwood puts on a dress to hide a knife that she had taken from the food brought to her in the camp.

“We came up with this idea that the reason I put this dress on is in order to hide this knife that I’ve taken from the food that they’ve brought me.

“It’s all about escaping. It’s not about a seduction that gets stopped, which is what it had been in the beginning.

“We made it about her trying to fool him or lull him into some sort of belief that he was going to seduce her and then she was going to turn the tables on him.”

In addition to discussing this particular scene, Allen also talked about her feelings that her character was sometimes left behind in the story.

Marcia Lucas, an Academy Award-winning editor who worked on “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” revealed in a video for the 40th anniversary of “Star Wars” that the scene at the end of the film in which Ravenwood and Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) meet again was almost cut because Spielberg thought it wasn’t important enough.

Allen commented on this in her interview with IndieWire, saying, “There were moments where this wonderful, bright, intelligent, talented boys’ club that had written the script, had, I thought, left her in the lurch in certain moments throughout the story.

“They created this very resourceful, very independent, very strong woman and then sometimes they would, whether it was for comic effect or whether it was unconscious, whatever it was, it felt sometimes like there were moments in which she did become a true damsel in distress.”