At eighty years old, Harrison Ford did not want to miss out on the opportunity to live one last adventure in the shoes of Indiana Jones, the daring archaeologist and treasure hunter that the veteran actor played for the first time four decades ago.
Between 1981 and 1989, the three films of the original saga were released (Raiders of the Lost Ark, the temple of doom and the last crusade); then, until 2008, a fourth installment was released (The kingdom of the crystal skull) still directed by Steven Spielberg. But not satisfied with that tetralogy, Disney executives —now owners of such intellectual property— launched Indiana Jones and the dial of fateunder the direction of James Mangold and with Ford again in the title role, eager to make this film the most ambitious of the entire franchise, as well as the last one with him as the lead.
In a recent interview with esquirethe octogenarian actor explained that his main reason for doing the dial of fate —which will hit theaters at the end of this month— was precisely the promise of taking Indy’s character further, compared to previous films.
“I wanted the last movie to be ambitious,” he told the outlet. “And I’m not saying that we didn’t make ambitious films before, which they were in many ways. But not necessarily as ambitious with the character as I wanted the last one to be.”
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Harrison Ford perceived that Indiana Jones’s wealth was now closely tied to his age. According to reports, one of the first scenes of the dial of fate He doesn’t even bother to hide the passage (and weight) of the years in the protagonist, to the point of showing him on camera without a shirt; a detail that Ford himself proposed during filming.
“It wasn’t what you expected, was it?” he told esquire. “That’s why I wanted to make the film. He wanted to know what happened to her and how she handled it. Mangold and I worked closely together, especially on that scene. Waking up in my underwear with an empty glass in my hand was my idea. I wanted to see Indiana Jones at a low point and rebuild it from the ground up.”
Ford’s desire to show off his old age even came to the fore while shooting a sequence where the character rides a horse on a Manhattan subway platform. According to what he told the outlet, he had barely finished filming the scene when some stuntmen came up to hold his legs to help him dismount, which upset the actor.
“I thought, ‘What the fuck?’ It was like they were groping me. I looked down and there were three guys making sure I wasn’t going to fall off the running board. They were like, ‘Oh, we were just scared because we were like, you know, blah-blah-blah…’ And I was like, ‘Leave me alone. I’m an old man getting off a horse, and I want him to look like that!'” the Hollywood luminary declared.
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Antonio G. Spindola I have very bad memory. Out of solidarity with my memories, I choose to lose myself too. Preferably in a movie theater.