Mads Mikkelsen calls Harrison Ford “a monster of a man, a very nice monster”
Mikkelsen was quite impressed with his Indiana Jones co-star's physicality
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In a recent interview, Fantastic Beast star Mads Mikkelsen discusses the resilience of Harrison Ford—his accident-prone, flyboy Indiana Jones co-star who suffered an injured shoulder on set.
“He’s an insanely powerful person,” Mikkelsen explains to The Hollywood Reporter. “I remember the first day we were shooting, it was a night shoot, then we stopped at 5 a.m.—and then he got on his mountain bike and went biking for 50 kilometers [31 miles].” At a spry 80 years old, perhaps Ford really did drink from the cup of the carpenter at the climax of 1989’s Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade.
Mikkelsen adds, “Harrison is a monster of a man, a very nice monster.”
Mikkelsen now joins the ranks of Ford, William Hootkins, and Julian Glover: actors who have appeared in both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. The actor declined to discuss any details of the new Indy picture which will be the first not to have Steven Spielberg at the helm. But despite having a new director–James Mangold—behind the camera, Mikkelsen feels like this latest film is a return to form for the blockbuster adventure series.
“They’re going heavily back to the first and second film and getting that original feel, the original Indy, something dense and epic,” he shares. With Mikkelson mentioning Temple Of Doom, maybe we will finally get that Short Round cameo we’ve all been waiting for.
“[Raiders of the Lost Ark] was one of my favorite films, and it just oozed that golden period of serials from the 1940s—and that’s in the fifth film as well,” he says before adding, “It felt like a Spielberg film, though it’s obviously James making it with the same vision.”
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore is now playing and Indiana Jones 5 is slated for release in the summer of 2023.
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When reached for comment, Ford shrugged, rolled his eyes, and grumbled something in audible.
Give me back my family! — Ford
…followed by crashing a small airplane into the nearest golf course.
Lesson being: never fly with Sean Connery as your gunner.
I don’t understand…I thought the Germans got them?
“Dad! Eleven ‘o clock!”
Hopefully they finally yanked his ticket.
But he had “No Ticket!”.
Could you imagine golfing on that course and you see Harrison Ford pop out of the wreckage? I’d check my bearings to make sure I wasn’t in a movie myself.
I would wait for Chewbacca to pop out.
…as always, the internet provides.
HAN: How many times do I have to tell you?! “Starboard” is right! “Port” is left!
CHEWIE: (growls angrily)
HAN: Okay, okay, I should’ve just said “Left!” But you should still know that!
“Lock in the auxiliary power!”
Fly? Yes. Land? No.
“Scotty, I’m sorry…they got us!”
Look, you try taking off while juggling throttle, stick, and bucket bong at the same time.
Then wandered off with his toys back home
Sega Master System! Fuck yeah! Dibs on first game of Double Dragon!
I wanna play Ghostbusters.
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the quintessential Harrison Ford interview will always be the one he gave to Bruno…still makes me smile thinking about it
In the special features, Sacha Baron Cohen said Harrison Ford was actually one of the few actors who were in on the gag, which makes it even funnier to me.
Harrison Ford: “I have no fucking idea what a Mads Mikkelsen is and I don’t care.”
Fuck Short Round. I hope he never comes back.
How did I miss all these years that Porkins and that “Top… Men” guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark were portrayed by the same actor?
maybe you’re confused by helmets
HOLY SHIT!!!! And he was the corrupt detective in the first Keaton Batman AND Zarkoff’s Earth assistant in Flash Gordon AND was something in Superman IV, which I never saw AND did an episode of Young Indy AND was the voice of Crimson Dynamo in the 90s Iron Man cartoons.
We salute you, fat ass!
And in real life, William Hootkins has a connection to the Kennedy assassination. As a teenager he studied Russian. His teacher was Ruth Paine, who was the woman Oswald’s wife and kids were living with at the time of the assassination. The lessons occurred before the assassintion, and Hootkins was interviewed by authorities about it.
He’s also the corrupt cop who gets killed by Jack in the first “Batman.” American actors who lived in Britain showed up a lot in blockbusters that were shot there. (like Ratzenberg.)See also: the guy who gets choked out by Vader in “Star Wars” shows up as a detective in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”
the guy who gets choked out by Vader in “Star Wars”
kinja’d lol“Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?”.gif
Patron saint: Canadian actor Bruce Boa: “Full Metal Jacket”, “Empire Strikes Back” (Rieekan), “The Omen”, “Superman”, “Fawlty Towers”, “Ragtime”, “Octopussy”, “Return to Oz”
But he’s Canadian!!!
Or Mac McDonald.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_McDonald
Always fun to add “and a Waldorf salad!” when the Hoth rebel base commander gives an order in Empire Strikes Back.
– Cover me, Porkins!
– Dammit Biggs, what have I told you about calling me “Porkins”?!!
You’re an A-1 nutboy and Grissom knows it.
Honestly, getting Spielberg out of the director’s chair (and Lucas away from the typewriter) are the two main factors that have me optimistic about this new Indy film. (the great cast is the third.)
I’m excited by the prospect that Indiana Jones will become visible in pop culture in 2023, when my son is almost 8 and will probably be old enough to watch the good Indiana Jones movies with me. James Mangold has a lifetime pass for Logan, but I’ve been pessimistic about legacy sequels since the last Star Wars trilogy.
I love a big adventure picture, though I never saw any of the big ‘80s ones — my reference points are late ‘90s/2000s joints like The Mask of Zorro, The Mummy, and Pirates of the Caribbean. I was telling my wife that one of things I’m most looking forward to when we start having kids is sitting down with them to watch that stuff. Just gotta catch up on Indiana Jones movies and, like, Romancing the Stone?
I’d say Romancing the Stone is as much a romantic comedy as anything (the title is a clue). It’s highly enjoyable but may not have the same 12-year-old appeal as Raiders.
Make sure you include The Rocketeer in that mix.
A a 44 year old man who saw romancing And jewel of the Nile in theaters with my parents at an inappropriate age, I can assure you the movies are not age appropriate today. Fucking awesome, yes. But not 2022 8 years old viewing.
I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark recently after not seeing it in five or six years, and it was as good as I remember – perfectly paced, well written and acted, the direction is masterful without being too showy. It’s also even more violent than I remembered, and I remembered it being violent. Even apart from the face-melting, I’d totally forgotten that two random goons are shot point-blank in the head. If my parents hadn’t let me watch Brian de Palma’s Untouchables (for some reason), it would easily be the most violent movie I saw in kindergarten. Which is to say, be sure you watch the Indiana Jones movies before showing them to your kids. The first two are PG, but they’re much more intense than PG-13 movies made in the 90s and 2000s.
If my parents hadn’t let me watch Brian de Palma’s Untouchables (for some reason)What is with parents and letting their kids watch The Untouchables? I know multiple people (myself included) who saw this during childhood, with the median age being about 8.
The tv show aired when my parents were tweens, and I’m sure it was considered suitable for their younger siblings, so it was probably a bit of a surprise that the movie would be so intensely violent. Of course, that explanation only works for the first time I watched the movie. The second and third times… Maybe they were just tired?
I’m pessimistic about legacy sequels, too, since almost none of them have been any good. I’d rather have no Indy 5 at all, but since it’s coming in spite of my objections, I’m glad they’ve brought some fresh blood on board and I’ve enjoyed almost all of Mangold’s films. I think he’s a great fit for the material, so I’m cautiously optimistic.
Ooooo James Mangold attached is very interesting. Piqued my interest for sure!
Spielberg is still capable of good directing but I’m not sure that he can make a good Indiana Jones movie at this point in his career.
Exactly.
1) That’s stupid. They’re literally the creators.2) Lucas uses a no. 2 pencil and yellow legal pad, and is probably more thrilled than you are that he’s not writing.
It’s not stupid. Even creators can run out of creative juice or have their personal sensibilities change so they’re no longer suited to it. Which happened to both of them.
1) That’s stupid. They’re literally the creators.That doesn’t mean they are the best at moving a franchise forward. A franchise can be better than its creators.
Except the current generation of writers evidently have a problem with writing existing characters and keeping them the same person. I don’t mean change through character growth, I mean they write different people from what the existing characters are.
See old man Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Jean-Luc Picard, etc.
You have a point with Fett, but old Luke and Picard were supposed to be the same people, just with the experience of years weighing down on them. Whether you believe that they would have turned into those people (who lost a lot of the idealism we admired in their younger selves) is a different issue.
Wait, is it actually being argued that Boba Fett had character traits before?
Boba Fett was a badass enigma of few words.
This is more interesting than a comparatively chatty bloke with no real plan.
Boba Fett was a cool helmet that fans projected onto. Nothing there to ruin or spoil.
That’s one way of looking at him.
Another way is to see how he was portrayed in the few moments he has in Empire and Jedi, and you’ll note he’s at least always focused on getting what he wants. This was largely missing from him in TBoBF, where he basically assumes (with little reason) he’s gotten what he wants. Add to that the verbosity and almost diplomatic calm he has in TBoBF, and he’s just not written as the same tactical badass we saw in the movies.
“Supposed to be the same people”, but weren’t. The writers failed.If they had “experience of years weighing down on them” and “lost a lot of the idealism we admired” then it’d be like what I said “change through character growth”, but…
Luke was the “new hope”, not just for the galaxy but because he pretty much always is hopeful himself. So much so he redeems Darth Vader. The Darth Vader. And we’re supposed to believe this person is the same person who would stand over his sleeping nephew, his (at this point) innocent sleeping nephew and ignite his lightsaber to kill him? That’s not Luke. And his old man character is a result of this moment, so it’s not Luke either.
And Picard is now being written as an almost bumbling dotard who just reacts to things happening with no real plan. The writers haven’t said he’s got senility, so they’ve written a different person. That’s not Picard. Then again, Star Trek: Picard is written so haphazardly it’s like the writers intend to daze the audience a bit so we don’t notice the way the characters seem to change from week to week, so I have little faith the writers have a real plan themselves.
I’m the opposite because I feel it loses something not having those two involved.Prior to this film what separated the Indy films from other franchises were they were very much a collaboration between Spielberg, Lucas and Ford. There wasn’t a studio dictating the release of the films or insisting on the direction of the films based on market research- they were making the films they wanted to make.Whether you think the films were good or not- they were creative passions first and the potential commercial success was a secondary concern.With this film the original creators are no longer involved- and by the sounds of Mads comments above the focus was on recapturing the feeling of the original films, not making something new. To me it feels more like an exercise in nostalgia, with the film being made because the studio knew they had a valuable IP on their hands.I hope its good- but for me if there was a choice between this film and one where Lucas and Spielberg were directly involved, I’d still rather have one with Lucas and Spielberg.
We had a latter-day Indy sequel with Spielberg and Lucas. Sorry, but after that one, they deserve a ban from the property.
Sorry, but after that one, they deserve a ban from the property. See and this is a view I can’t get behind. That’s like saying David Lynch and Mark Frost should be banned from making Twin Peaks.
They originated and created the character and the series- they’ve got every right to tell the stories they want with the character, regardless of if fans enjoy them or not.It’s all about preference but for me I’d rather have the original creators telling a story they want to tell with their characters, even if its not loved by all fans, than a product made by studios based around trying to appeal to what fans say they want.It’s the difference between a ‘property’ being a creator driven story and a corporate driven IP. Both can be good or bad, but my preference is always for the former over the latter when possible.
I agree with a lot of this….in theory. But it was hardly Lucas’ first strike, after the prequel trilogy. And while I’ll take the ambitious, idiosyncratic prequel trilogy over the corporate-mandated, straight up the middle pablum of “The Force Awakens”, it also doesn’t have to be strictly an either/or proposition.Whereas I was very worried about the first new SW movie, as, for my money, JJ Abrams had yet to make a decent movie (and still hasn’t), as I said, I remain hopeful about Indy 5 entirely due to the fact that I’ve enjoyed just about every Mangold movie I’ve seen and I think his sensibilities are a good fit for the character/world.Sure, Lucas and Spielberg are the creators/originators, but even creators can make bad decisions or lose their mojo. Spielberg’s heart wasn’t remotely in Indy 4 and it shows, while Lucas’ latter day wonky AF sensibilities are all over it. Sorry, but, creator or not, their last outing was objectively awful and nothing has convinced me they’d do a better job this time around.I’d rather see someone else given a crack at it.
You think Indy 4 was a creative passion? Spielberg also chose to do Ready Player One, and that was a garbage nostalgia wank fest. I don’t think he has any passion for the big budget action movies he does these days. Or, at least it’s not showing in his work.
I’m not sure Spielberg was the problem with Crystal Skull as much as Lucas was.
Lucas for sure, but Spielberg’s direction was listless, lifeless and bloodless.The scene where Mac gets sucked into the vortex or whatever is probably the worst-directed scene in Spielberg’s entire career. Just astonishingly poor without a whiff of actual tension.Most of the movie, while not that bad, is similarly poorly paced and utterly lacking in suspense and danger.
Without Shia there just isn’t an Indiana Jones for me.
For the love of all things that are Holy…please don’t make Harrison Ford run in this new movie. He couldn’t run at 30…80 is just cruel.
Did you miss the part where he can bike 31 miles?
I’m not talking about his stamina. I’m talking about his form. Watch him run down a tunnel on the Death Star and get back to me!
Oh, that’s not a long distance, it would take about an hour or so for regular people with a cheap bike. Even better now with E-bikes. You should try it.
Are you suggesting regular people cycle at 30 mph? Because they don’t.
Regular people ride at 31 mph? Not in my world, unless they’re going down a good sized hill.
Shodan said MILES. Not miles an hour. LOL!
Where is everyone getting MPH? He said MILES as in distance. Ya’ll need to stop smoking when posting. LOL!
Let’s see if you can figure this one out without having it explained to you.
He can bike 31 miles, you said “Oh, that’s not a long distance, it would take about an hour or so for regular people”. What do YOU call it when someone goes 31 miles in an hour? Here on Earth it’s called going 31 miles per hour.
No! Never!!!
Regular people do not bike 31 mph. I bike religiously, and at my prime, I could do 15-16 mph. The only people faster were those spandex-bubblebutt teams who speed by in perfect synchronization with stone-faced determination, the simple joy of biking having faded away at least 12 years ago.
If it was an actual mountain bike trail, that’d be insane. Although regular biking would be impressive too, especially at 5 a.m.
Just have him chug-a-chug his arms back & forth and digitally* add in a moving background.*Or use rear-projection for a cool old-school feel.
A 5th Indy movie? There are only 3 Indy movies!!!THERE ARE ONLY 3 INDY MOVIES!!!JUST LIKE THERE ARE 4 LIGHTS!!
You believe lies as a result of torture? You really have seen Crystal Skull.
As far as I’m concerned, there are 2.
Although I admit I liked the 4th one better than most people did.
Hated the 2nd one, hated, hated it.
Spielberg said that Temple of Doom was made at a low point in his life. So that could explain the darker tone to it.
What are you talking about? Of course there was a 4th. And it was the best one.
Yes. Just like there are only 2 Alien movies.
Yeah, I’d say don’t get your hopes up
Ehh James Mangold is certainly an interesting director. And it’s gotta be better than Crystal Skull; I like to think Ford wouldn’t make the same mistake twice
Ford is more like Grover than Oscar. He just pretends to be gruff.
Somewhere on the internet there is a glorious chart showing which actors had roles in Doctor Who, The Avengers (British), Star Wars movies, Indiana Jones movies, and James Bond movies. I think Julian Glover was the only one to appear in all five, but a surprising number of actors were in at least four.
5 nickels, not much, but strange it happened fice, etc.
Honestly, the thing about being able to exercise at an advanced age is that it’s very much ‘use it or lose it.’ If you keep cycling, you continue being able to cycle (barring some sort of degenerative disorder).
This will suffer the same problems Crystal Skull had. Indian Jones exists in a very specific time frame. Post WW2 he just is not compelling.
At this point, this new one likely takes place in the late 60’s. I for one look forward to old man Indy complaining about hippies.
I’m hoping he finds out he’s got a daughter who’s an abject Beatnik.Indy has his whip; she has her bongos.
is he man or is he a monster? If he’s a man that makes him a monster of a man.
So excited!!!!Got major goosebumps just reading about it!
He pedaled 30 miles on a mountain bike? That is really impressive. Also don’t believe it.
When reached for comment, Ford said, ”For the last time! Get the hell off my land! This thing is loaded!”