Harrison Ford told stuntmen to “leave me the fuck alone” on ‘Indiana Jones 5’

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Harrison Ford has recalled how he told stuntmen to “leave me the fuck alone” while shooting Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny.The upcoming film marks the fifth and final instalment of the long-running action franchise — which kicked off in 1981 with Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark.Now, over four decades after he first appeared in the lead role, Ford will celebrate his 81st birthday shortly after the latest film hits theatres.

However, when speaking in a new interview, the acclaimed actor shared that he was determined not to conceal his age in the project.One moment that highlighted this best, he said, was a scene in Dial Of Destiny in which Jones is riding a horse through the streets of New York City during the 1969 ticker-tape parade that followed the moon landing.While filming this, Ford explained to Esquire, he felt the hands of multiple stuntmen helping him get off the horse, which irritated him as he wanted the scene to show him dismounting how he normally would.“I thought, ‘What the fuck?’ Like I was being attacked by gropers.

I look down and there’s three stunt guys there making sure I didn’t fall off the stirrup,” he recalled. “They said, ‘Oh, we were just afraid because we thought, you know, and bah bah bah bah.’ And I said, ‘Leave me the fuck alone…L eave me alone, I’m an old man getting off a horse and I want it to look like that!”’He also explained that he wanted to show his age more in the film, and even made the decision to go shirtless during a scene to emphasise this: “Waking up in my underwear with the empty glass in my hand was my idea.”Elsewhere in the interview, Ford recalled how he wanted the final instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise to be the most “ambitious” yet.“I wanted an.