«I would’ve thought it was sacrilegious, you can’t do that,» he explained, before joking about his deep bond with Spielberg. «But the fact that it was Steven himself—I call him Steven now, we’re close friends—the fact that it was Mr. Spielberg handing you this script, you feel like I’ve got a bit of license. This is never going to happen in my wildest dreams ever again, so you’ve got to do it.»
And that’s why Edwards, 50, doesn’t take the opportunity to work on such a classic film franchise for granted.
«You can’t get used to it,» he emphasized. «That’s so surreal and so weird, you can pretend it’s a dream, like I think I’m going to wake up, like in Back to the Future, and this whole thing, this whole last year or so, was just an illusion.»
