Harrison Ford shrugs off retirement and says it’s time to ‘grow up’
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Hollywood icon Harrison Ford shrugged off retirement and said it is time for him to “grow up.”
“I don’t do well when I don’t have work,” Ford, 80, told Chris Wallace in a preview clip for his upcoming appearance on Max’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?.
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“I love to work. I love to feel useful. It’s my jones. I want to be helpful.”
Wallace asked what it is about the process of making a movie that keeps Ford coming back for more.
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“It is the people you get to work with,” Ford said. “The intensity and the intimacy of collaboration. It’s the combined ambition somehow forged from words on a page. I don’t plan what I want to do in a scene, and I don’t feel obliged to do anything, but I’m naturally affected by things that I work on.”
The actor’s latest project, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, premieres June 30 and acts as a closing chapter to one of Ford’s most iconic roles.
Ford wanted the film to be ambitious and character-driven, he said.
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“I wanted us to confront the question of age straight on, not to hide my age but to take advantage of it in the telling of the story,” Ford said.
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Portraying Indiana Jones has been a joy for him, but stepping away is not a bittersweet moment, according to Ford.
“It’s a time for me to grow up,” he said. “Six years ago, I thought maybe we ought to take a shot at making another one, and I wanted it to be about age because I think that rounds out the story that we’ve told, and we brought it to the right place. I mean, the last one ended in kind of a suspended animation. There was not a real strong feeling of the conclusion, or the closure that I always hoped for, the roundness and speaking to this issue of age. Not making jokes about it, but making it a real thing.”