Harrison Ford

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How Harrison Ford trained River Phoenix to become Indiana Jones (Far Out Magazine)

In the late 1980s, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford worked with the lateRiver Phoenix, who portrayed a young version of Indiana Jones in 'The Last ...

The latter co-starred the legendary Sean Connery and the rising star River Phoenix, who played the young version of Ford’s Indiana Jones in a flashback to his days as a Boy Scout in 1912. Just a couple of years later, these jovial impersonations proved profitable when Phoenix was commissioned by the one and only Spielberg to do just that. Tragically, this future was cut short when, in October 1993, the 23-year-old actor died from a combined drug overdose. While Spielberg allowed Phoenix to assert his essence, he had to present Indiana Jones’ defining mannerisms. With central roles in the original run of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Ford secured immortal status as a cultural icon and a wallet-ripping cash flow. Just over half of Ford’s career earnings from a total of 52 movies came from the eight Star Wars and Indiana Jones releases in which he was cast.

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From "1923" to "Shrinking," Harrison Ford's grandpa renaissance (Salon)

An article about Harrison Ford from the "Yellowstone" spinoff "1923" to "Shrinking" to the new "Indiana Jones"

[full of those](https://www.salon.com/2023/03/18/abbott-elementary-bear-shrinking-couples-shipping-friends/)). [With "1923," the "Yellowstone" universe grimly enlists Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren](https://www.salon.com/2022/12/18/1923-review-yellowstone-harrison-ford-helen-mirren/) [Harrison Ford mocks Donald Trump's presidential fantasies: "Air Force One" was just "a movie, it's not like this in real life, but how would you know?" [Calista Flockhart](https://www.salon.com/2010/06/17/harrison_ford_calista_flockhart_married/) own a sprawling ranch in the west — specifically, Wyoming — but they have donated about half of their 800 acres to a nature reserve. Ford also finds commonalities to his life with his role in "Shrinking," though he declined to tell [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/harrison-ford-interview-shrinking-indy-5-1923-1235318736/) much about it, only alluding in an interview, "There are issues with [the character's] family — which are not the same issues I have with my family. And as Jacob in "1923," he growls, "Tell the world what happens when they cross me." He makes a connection with Jimmy's teenage daughter (Lukita Maxwell as Alice), grieving the recent and sudden loss of her mom and dealing with a strained relationship with her dad. [Salon's](https://www.salon.com/2022/12/18/1923-review-yellowstone-harrison-ford-helen-mirren/) Melanie McFarland describes Ford as "the nation's favorite cowboy-swashbuckling archaeologist-president rolled up in one." [Harrison Ford](https://www.salon.com/2016/03/16/harrison_ford_doesnt_belong_in_a_museum_indiana_jones_in_his_70s_is_exactly_the_hero_we_need/) was a staple of our childhood, the dashing space rogue, the dashing archelogy professor/adventurer. Paul Rhoades, a therapist in the same practice as Segel's unorthodox (to put it Do we need to see a senior citizen, decades older than most men of the 1920s [even lived](https://u.demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html), galloping on a horse? (Christopher Saunders/Paramount+ )Like Jacob, Ford and wife And of course, he's been [the president](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FItgZOuaPVY).

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