Harrison Ford showed his softer side while reflecting on his epic turn as Indiana Jones.
The 80-year-old actor’s last episode because the rope-slinging motion hero shall be “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” out June 30 — and got candid in a recent interview about that 40-plus years-long journey.
In a rare moment of vulnerability, Ford got teary-eyed while chatting with BBC Radio 1 about why the character is so necessary to fans.
“I believe the thing that I most admire about them is the depth and subtlety of the emotion, and the importance of emotion in these movies,” he told host Ali Plumb.
The “Star Wars” alum continued, “As this last one concerns age and frailty and changing nature of life, it was especially compelling to me because I’m of that age and I wanted it to feel real for the audience.”
“I wanted them to see the complexity of that have with someone they’ve spent 40 years with,” he added.
Plumb then told an emotional Ford, “Can I just say on behalf of all of the fans, thanks. It’s been such an adventure. We love you a lot. I don’t intend to make you blush or anything, but you mean the world to us and thanks.”
Ford seemed stunned by the type words and shared his own message to fans. “And I have to say to you thanks sincerely,” he said. “It means the world to me.”
The daddy of 5 first graced the silver screen as Indiana Jones in 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” He later starred in three separate sequels that were released between 1984 and 2008.
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is Ford and his dusty brown fedora’s final movie together. He announced to Total Film this past April that he wouldn’t be playing the role in any future installments.
“That is the ultimate film within the series, and that is the last time I’ll play the character. I anticipate that it is going to be the last time that he appears in a movie,” the screen legend stated.
The fifth sequel is the just one within the franchise that will not be directed by Steven Spielberg and isn’t written by George Lucas. Nonetheless, each signed on as executive producers.
Since the recent movie takes place within the mid Forties — and as a consequence of Ford’s normal progression of age — his character needed to be de-aged for the flick.
Ford even defended the anti-aging technology at a Cannes press conference last month.
“I do know that that’s my face,” the licensed air pilot declared. “It’s not a sort of Photoshop magic — that’s what I looked like 35 years ago.”
“Because Lucasfilm has every frame of film that we’ve made together over all of those years. And this process, this scientific mining of this library, this was put to good [use],” he continued.
