What Has Harrison Ford ‘Terribly Concerned’ At Age 83

Actor Harrison Ford reveals what has him "terribly concerned" about the entertainment industry at the age of 83. The What Has Harrison Ford ‘Terribly Concerned’ At Age 83 first appeared on The Blast

Actor Harrison Ford has been in the entertainment industry for decades. Best known for his roles in “Indiana Jones and “Star Wars,” the 83-year-old actor has been best known for his movie roles until recently. Over the past several years, he has starred alongside Helen Mirren in the “Yellowstone” spin-off “1923” and opposite Jason Segel in “Shrinking,” where he plays a psychiatrist diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Following the season 3 finale, Ford reflected on his start in Hollywood and the current state of the entertainment industry.

Harrison Ford Reflects On The ‘Fulfilling’ Nature Of Filming ‘Shrinking’

Following the season 3 finale, which sees his character retire and move to Connecticut, Ford opened up on the “serious sh-t” the show covers in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast.

Throughout the season, Ford shared several scenes with Michael J. Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991. “Here I am now, playing a guy with Parkinson’s, and I’m sitting next to Michael J. Fox,” Ford said. “This is serious sh-t, man. This is not insignificant for me.”

“I find it really fulfilling doing what I do, and I enjoy it as much as I ever, ever could possibly have imagined,” he continued. However, he admitted that he “never thought” that he would be filming a TV show, let alone a comedy.

Harrison Ford Reveals What Makes His Job ‘Fun’

Even though he never expected to be starring in a comedy series, he did say that the work is “fun” for him.

“You work faster, and that’s fun for me,” he explained. “I like getting there, getting the work done and going home. I love the challenge. I love the danger, if you will, of the work that I’m able to do. And I like the company.”

He went on to explain that he “always wanted to be a character actor,” adding, “I had never thought that I would be a leading man … I got to play leading parts because the films I was in had success, and that success carried me along.”

Ford Is ‘Concerned’ About The Future Of Hollywood

Even though he has been in many successful blockbusters, Ford admitted that he is “terribly concerned” about the future of the entertainment industry.

“I came up at a period of time when the movie business was at its zenith, when the movie business captured the zeitgeist of a culture, and there was a transference, a cross-feeding, and the culture captured the zeitgeist of the movies,” he explained. “There is no zeitgeist anymore.”

“We’ve been disassociated. We’ve been purposefully disaggregated into serviceable political economic units,” he continued. “There is an empty center that needs to be filled, to bring the culture back together, to bring the culture and the movie business back together, for the movie business to be useful in the consciousness of an audience, a culture, a community.”

Harrison Ford’s Depression Launched His Acting Career

Before he became a household name, Ford recalled living in a single room in college and rarely venturing out. “I would get up out of my single bed, go to a phone, order a pizza, go back and lay down in bed until the pizza came,” he recalled. “I would eat the pizza, throw the wrappers in the corner, go back to sleep.”

Things changed when he took a class called “Drama” without reading the full description. He was interested in analyzing plays, but he didn’t realize he also had to act in them. Although it was a “surprise,” he realized that he actually “found [his] place” through the class.

“I’d never done anything like that,” Ford admitted. “And I was surprised that the people that I had considered to be fellow geeks and misfits were, in fact, some of the most interesting people I knew. They were doing something that I hadn’t really understood, and they were telling stories about life, and some of them were exceptional in their capacity to understand human behavior. And so I think I simply found my place amongst storytellers. It really changed my world, changed my life.”

Ford Is ‘Really Good’ At Improv, Says ‘Shrinking’ Costar

In a June 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, costar Jason Segel revealed that his “Shrinking” costar is actually “really, really good” at improv.

“With Harrison Ford, there was a moment when I saw him register and was like, ‘Oh, we’re doing this now.’ And he was good at it. He’s really, really good at it,” Segel said. “There was a whole potato run, where I end up eating these potatoes. [He said] ‘Do whatever you want with them. Boil them, bake them.’ That was a riff that came out of his mouth. He is really smart, he’s really funny and he really understands acting.”

“There’s a reason he’s Harrison Ford,” he added.

All three seasons of “Shrinking” are available on Apple TV+. The show has been renewed for a fourth season, with the main cast set to return.

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