“This is a popcorn movie. With special sauce,” Harrison Ford said of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” “And that special sauce is unexpected, unanticipated true emotion.”
, “Captain America: Brave New World,” in which he plays American President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross , who may or may not turn out to be the Red Hulk.For a few years Ford did seem to be winding down. He turned up as Han Solo one last time, to nostalgic audience delight, in “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens” and made a third-act reprise of his character Decker in “Blade Runner: 2049.”
“I like to work,” Ford told journalists at the Cannes Film Festival, where “Dial of Destiny” premiered in May. It was a classic Fordian understatement — all that was missing wasMany of Ford’s octogenarian peers — Fonda, Judi Dench, Al Pacino — are still working, but none of them, with the exception of President Joe Biden, are currently working as hard as Ford.
Ford waved away the half-dozen people who hung at the edges of the room: “Go, go, no one needs to hear all this.” “Forty-five minutes,” a young woman repeated, reminding me of the time that I had. “I wanted to be ambitious, for those things we have not necessarily done in such measure,” he said. When asked what he means by “those things,” he explains in that instantly recognizable, back-straightening “take this seriously” tone. “I mean take a chance on telling the story of an older character, take a chance on introducing your character in present day in a totally anti-iconic way, reducing him to his underwear and a La-Z-Boy with a glass in his hand.
“Someone did ask me if I was going to remake every f— film I’d ever made,” he said. “And I said, ‘Yes. Why not? It’s my job.’” “I don’t work that way,” he said. “I work off the page and in the room where it happens. Jim Mangold [who replaced Spielberg as director] and I worked together on reshoots on [2020’s] ‘Call of the Wild’ — we spent two months figuring out what to do while we were waiting for my beard to grow in. His ambitions and my ambitions are very close [but] I do not require people to do what I want. I want the script to take me someplace I have not been before.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Harrison Ford talks Indiana Jones, Chicago connectionsWhile you may know that actor Harrison Ford is from Chicago, you might be surprised to learn that the character of Indiana Jones has Chicago connections as well!
Read more »
‘The Fugitive’ Gave Us Harrison Ford vs. Tommy Lee Jones and Two of Their Best PerformancesThe classic '90s thriller pits a movie star against an unlikely counterpart.
Read more »
Harrison Ford's emotional fifth and final film as Indiana Jones'It completes 42 years of work,' says Ford, of this emotional moment in his career. 'It's a movie I always wanted to do at the end of the Indiana Jones period of my life.'
Read more »
Marvel’s Thunderbolts Spring To Action In Fan Poster Teasing Harrison Ford’s Red HulkThunderbolts counts on a star-studded cast for what should be an intriguing mission, and this exciting fan poster teases the team fighting Red Hulk.
Read more »
Harrison Ford's emotional fifth and final film as Indiana Jones'It completes 42 years of work,' says Ford, of this emotional moment in his career. 'It's a movie I always wanted to do at the end of the Indiana Jones period of my life.'
Read more »
Harrison Ford's emotional fifth and final film as Indiana Jones'It completes 42 years of work,' says Ford, of this emotional moment in his career. 'It's a movie I always wanted to do at the end of the Indiana Jones period of my life.'
Read more »