Kate Capshaw called her character "not much more than a dumb screaming blonde." Steven Spielberg said in 1989 "I wasn't happy with "Temple of Doom" at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered "Poltergeist". There's not an ounce of my own personal feeling in "Temple of Doom"." He later added during the "Making of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" documentary, ""Temple of Doom" is my least favorite of the trilogy. I look back and I say, 'Well the greatest thing that I got out of that was I met Kate Capshaw.' We married years later and that to me was the reason I was fated to make "Temple of Doom"."