A famous retired actress. | Source: Getty Images
For someone who quietly traded movie sets for a very different kind of creative life, stepping back into Hollywood’s glare was bound to stir curiosity. Once the cameras caught her, the moment became a striking reminder of just how much has changed since her blockbuster days.
Hollywood legends were everywhere as the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art finally celebrated its long-awaited opening in Los Angeles. But among the parade of famous faces, one woman accompanying Steven Spielberg offered a particularly nostalgic surprise. She was hardly a stranger to the filmmaker — or to one of cinema’s biggest adventure franchises.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens to the public on September 22, 2026, after a project 17 years in the making. George Lucas and Mellody Hobson poured $1 billion into the institution, which celebrates everything from film memorabilia to fine art. | Source: Getty Images
Spielberg was among the event’s co-chairs as George Lucas and wife Mellody Hobson welcomed stars inside the museum on September 19, 2026. And the woman beside him has her own connection to a movie character audiences have remembered for more than four decades. If Willie Scott immediately comes to mind, you are on the right track.
Steven Spielberg served as one of the opening-night co-chairs for the star-packed September 19 celebration. The evening gave Hollywood guests an early look inside the museum before its official public debut. | Source: Getty Images
The mystery guest was Kate Capshaw, the 72-year-old former actress who starred opposite Harrison Ford as Willie Scott in 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” — and who has been married to Spielberg for decades.
And judging from the rare new appearance, Capshaw certainly knows how to make a return to the Hollywood spotlight count.
