Back in 2015, the run of bad luck concerning incidents for Harrison Ford continued. After a potentially life-changfing injury on the set of The Force Awakens, his vintage aircraft suffered engine failure, forcing Ford to make an emergency landing on a golf course, leaving Ford with a large laceration and several broken bones. Fords co-star in 1923 and The Mosquito Coast Helen Mirren looked at why Ford is arguably delivering the best work of his career, and why that plane crash was possibly involved in opening up another compartment of his acting tookbox.
“He was a huge star and he really didn’t want to be. He wanted to just be a quiet person getting on with life, and of course, that’s kind of impossible. Something rather magical has happened to Harrison, especially with his history of, you know, being the dude, the bloke, the fabulous action guy, the funny guy, the cool guy. Now there’s this open road to his inner feelings, which he is absolutely unafraid of expressing. It’s just a true, quick, instinctive emotional reaction to things, without sentimentality.”
“He’s been carried into the kitchen, dying and covered in blood, and later Harrison did say to me, ‘That was how I was after the accident.’ I think, maybe, going through that experience just gave him a very different understanding of what it is to be a sentient human being.”
