Harrison Ford on Indiana Jones Retirement and Going Shirtless at 80: ‘I’ve Been Blessed With This Body’
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” stars Harrison Ford in his final performance as the swashbuckling fedora-wearing adventurer, a legendary role he’s played in five films across 40 years.
But he says he is officially ready to retire the character. “Is it not evident?” the 80-year-old actor joked at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday’s press conference for the action-adventure. “I need to sit down and rest a little bit.” In returning to the character for one last time, Ford expressed a desire to see “a completion of the five films.” He added, “I wanted to see the weight of life on him.
I wanted to see him require reinvention. I wanted him to have a relationship that wasn’t a flirty movie relationship. Director James Mangold’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” isn’t playing in competition, but it’s one of the buzziest premieres at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
It marks Ford’s return to the festival for the first time since the fourth chapter, 2008’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” When “Dial of Destiny” premiered on Thursday night at the Palais, where Ford was greeted with a movie’s star welcome, with thousands of fans screaming his name and the audience inside the theater showering him with applause.
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