Harrison Ford didn’t learn anything from Shrinking
Though he plays a therapist on Apple TV+'s Shrinking, Harrison Ford doesn't need one in real life: "I know who the fuck I am," he says
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Harrison Ford is enjoying a fruitful period (Shrinking, 1923, and the upcoming Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny) in a uniquely fruitful career. But Ford, of course, is as down to earth as ever in a new Hollywood Reporter profile, which is emblazoned on the cover with the quote: “I know who the fuck I am.” Iconic actor behaves iconically, and more breaking news at eleven.
But seriously folks, this is an interview littered with gems, including his perspective on his first-ever television comedy, Apple TV+’s Shrinking. “Would it be arrogant to say that I didn’t learn anything?” He says when asked. “Well, look, I really didn’t learn anything. (Laughs.) It’s about being in the room where it happens and being appropriate to the circumstances and welcoming the opportunity to generate something with a little spontaneity and a measure of truth.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Ford discusses topics like no longer rescuing people when he flies his helicopter (“I stopped doing it because we would be lucky enough to find somebody and then they’d be on Good Morning America talking about ‘a hero pilot.’ It’s nothing fucking like that. It’s a team effort. It’s lame to think about it that way”), whether he had an emotional response to donning Indy’s fedora for the last time (“Look, it was bizarre to start with, and it’s bizarre again”), and his reflections on philosophy (“I found that everything in nature—the complexity, the biodiversity, the symbiotic relationships—is the same thing other people attribute to God. … Now aren’t you glad you asked that question? You want to get back to the funny shit?”).
Ford also recalls being “fucking terrified” when he “first went onstage,” but attributes the feeling to “being unfamiliar with the territory.” He dismisses a prevalent fan theory, based on how closed off he sometimes seems in press appearances, that he may have social anxiety. “Shit. That sounds like something a psychiatrist would say, not a casual observer,” he says, quite fairly. “No. I don’t have a social anxiety disorder. I have an abhorrence of boring situations.” Now that’s a movie star!
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Harrison Ford never ceases to amaze me. His part about nature and God gave me a really good laugh.
I have an abhorrence of boring situations.Boss.
I’m with him. I fly a helicopter all over the place and I don’t rescue anybody.
If they need rescuing so bad they should have thought ahead and brought their own chopper.
Fuckin’ A. I mean Col. Blake did . . . oh wait . . .
Is he handier in a chopper than an airplane? If not I’m okay with him not rescuing me either.
If they didn’t want to need rescuing, they should have stayed at home! Losers!
“Get in, I’m here to rescue you!”
“But, we were just out hiking! There’s nothing wrong, we don’t need…”|
“Get. In. The Damn Helicopter…NOW!” *slowly draws blaster*
Lem: How can I trust you now? I bet you weren’t even rescued in Montana by Harrison Ford.
Phil: No, that is true, I swear. I woke up next to a campfire with Indiana Jones making me bacon.Man I miss Better off Ted.
I fucking love this dude.
He’s still not gonna rescue you.
or give you his Bud Light.
“I know who the fuck I am.”
Fuckin a, man!
But did he ask the showrunners to kill his character off in the final episode? It appears to be his take on every character he plays more than once.
Harrison Ford interviews are always hilarious. He did one alongside Daniel Craig in support of Cowboys and Aliens that was great. Neither of them give one fuck.https://ew.com/article/2011/07/22/close-encounter-harrison-ford-and-daniel-craig/
I caught Craig being interviewed while promoting Defiance on the radio. He was clearly completely disengaged until the interviewer commented that his football team (Liverpool) were going well. It was like somebody had flicked a switch. He spent the next 5 minutes breaking down in detail how certain tactical changes had improved the team’s performance.
Harrison Ford- 1Fucks Given- 0
One of the things that I love about Harrison Ford is less who he is and more that it’s an outgrowth of literally giving your local pot-dealing carpenter a job he thinks is basically ridiculous, a shitload of money to do it, and then asking him questions he doesn’t care about for the rest of his life. The guy just wants to do his weird job and hike and fly planes.