Harrison Ford says he has no plans to retire from acting
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Written by: Josh Welsh
The fifth instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise finally hits theatres today. While it may be the last film of the franchise, Harrison Ford says it’s not his last film.
While being interviewed by CNN host Chris Wallace, he asked Ford if he was retiring as the actor turns 81.
“I don’t do well when I don’t have work,” Ford said. “I love to work… I love to feel useful. It’s my Jones, I want to be helpful.”
The Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny star says he loves the “intensity and intimacy of collaboration” of working on a film set.
Wallace followed up and asked him what he liked about acting so much to which Ford responded, “It is the people that you get to work with. 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 am naturally affected by the things that I work on.”
The Star Wars actor confirmed that the Dial of Destiny would be the final Indiana Jones film.
“This is the final film in the series, and this is the last time I’ll play the character,” Ford told Total Film magazine. “I anticipate that it will be the last time that he appears in a film.”
Ford has portrayed Indiana Jones since his introduction in Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark back in 1981. The franchise has spawned five films following Raiders: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and now Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Wallace asked the actor about this film being an ambitious one for Indy and what that means for Ford. Ford responded with an answer about age.
“I wanted it to be character driven and I wanted us to confront the question of age straight on. Not to hide my age but to take advantage of it in telling the story. I wanted it to be about age because I think that rounds out the story that we’ve told and we’ve brought it to the right place. It’s time for me to grow up,” he said.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny releases today worldwide. It also stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook, Thomas Kretschmann, Toby Jones, Antonio Banderas and John Rhys-Davies.
Bonus video: Have you seen this? Watch this heartwarming video of Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan (Oscar winner of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once) reuniting during the press tour of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Ke Huy Quan got his start in the industry when he played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom back in 1984!
