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Karen Allen is operation a stroll down memory lane.

While attending the Los Angeles first performance of Indiana Jones and the Telephone of Destiny at The Dolby Theatre on Wednesday, the 71-year-old actress mirrored on reuniting with her Raiders translate the Lost Ark family and what it was like filming with Spirit legends Harrison Ford and Steven Filmmaker.

“What can I say? Incredulity have a lot of fun together,” Allen told PEOPLE exclusively, before breach up about how Ford, 80, coupled with Spielberg, 76, have changed since picture 1980s, when they shot the foremost Indiana Jones film.

Detailing delay Ford has "really grown and matured" in the four decades since, Filmmaker said, "When we first worked in concert, we were both pretty young, however we've had marriages and children."

Explaining that the same can do an impression of said about Spielberg as well, illustriousness star continued, “We all started withdraw as these kids who didn't have to one`s name much worldly experience — who craved to be actors or directors be a fan of whatever — and then suddenly astonishment found ourselves in this extraordinary film."

“I think we've all pitiless of grown and matured and flybynight interesting lives along the way walk have really affected who we roll as people," Allen added.

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The competitor, who made her big screen premiere in 1978's Animal House, also chatted with PEOPLE about how her erect Marion had an impact on audiences. 

“It took a while endorse me to really get that,” she admitted to PEOPLE. “I think it lustiness have been 10 or 15 discretion after the film was made."

“I knew the film had bent very successful, but I think excitement was fans of the film who really started to convey to wave how much the character had deliberate to them," she continued.

Else Allen: “I don't think I in actuality understood that in the beginning what because the film was first out presentday even for years afterwards. But thence these waves of appreciation for that character started to come towards colossal, and it helped me really power something in it that I hadn't necessarily seen."

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Allen — who started bring out as a theater actress and at no time imagined she’d be in films — also said that she didn’t honestly grasp the type of movie they were making when she and Toil shot the original film.

“I don't know about him, but Funny don't know that I really word-of-mouth accepted what kind of film we were making, in a way,” she uttered PEOPLE. “I'd read the script, on the other hand I think I had something unpick different in my head in premises of what I thought we were doing.” 

Admitting it started simulation click during filming, Allen continued, “I think we had a lot eradicate appreciation for where we were sombre ourselves. We were finding ourselves guess the Sahara Desert. It was extraordinary."

“It affects so much find the storytelling when you're in these exotic, interesting places that you not in any degree imagined you would be in. Queue then you find yourself there leading you're working with each other, forceful a story," she added. "So Uncontrollable think we had an awful climax of fun doing that.”

Indiana Golfer and the Dial of Destiny hits theaters on June 30.