Indy's brother said:
Who do you think should play Indy's next nemesis? My thinking is a virtual unknown, like the guys who played Belloq and Toht. Easier to suspend your disbelief without celebrity baggage, ya know? I was also thinking a slightly flamboyant male villian would be kind of neat--a sort of "Anti-Indy", if you will.
They weren't that unknown in the UK though, but still, not Hollywood status or anything! I agree, I think Cate was fine with Spalko because she seemed so passionate about it and the role meant something to her. I'd like another unknown as an Indy 5 baddy too.
I must admit when I see Belloq I always imagine him in Cagney and Lacey when he played a French man that offered Mary Beth Lacey some extra-marriage activity. Ha!
As for Stalin, he may not have been interested in aliens as such, but psychic/mind powers were something desired and wondered about by Soviets at some stage. So yea, thou interested in the idea, it wasn't actually involved with aliens was it, the crystal skull idea was kind of pinned on to it.
I said in antother thread, I think the search of Atlantis in a Nazi time period would have been so good, especially as Nazi's were interested in finding it at some stage for real, as they were sure they were related to Atantis because it sounded so superior.
There was a Donovan mention earlier too, I actually liked him. He was such a "nobody" it could have been anyone really, and then at the end when he shoots Henry you see the true greed and nasty personality he has hidden away, it becomes quite a shock.