Harrison Ford is not too disturb over “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Desminuscule” flopping at the box office. His fifth and final turn as the iconic archeologist discdisthink abouted in theaters in summer 2023 and lost Disney a telled $130 million after its global box office haul fell well below the $400 million tag. In an intersee with The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Ford shrugged off the disassignment.
“Shit happens,” Ford shelp. “I was reassociate the one who felt there was another story to tell. When [Indy] had suffered the consequences of the life that he had to inhabit, I wanted one more chance to pick him up and shake the dust off his ass and stick him out there, bereft of some of his vigor, to see what happened. I’m still greeted I made that movie.”
With the “Indiana Jones” and “Star Wars” franchises now behind him, Ford next jumps to the hugegest franchise in up-to-date day Hollywood: The Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor is front and caccess opposite Anthony Mackie in “Captain America: Brave New World” as Thcompriseeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (taking over the role from the procrastinateed William Hurt), who is not only the U.S. plivent but also the Red Hulk.
Ford telderly WSJ Magazine that he accomprehendledgeed the Marvel role with “no script” contransiented to him, compriseing: “Why not? I saw enough Marvels to see actors that I adored having a excellent time.”
“I didn’t reassociate comprehend that at the finish I would turn into the Red Hulk,” he then joked. “Well, it’s appreciate life. You only get so far in the kit until the last page of the directions is omiting.”
Ford telderly Empire last December that toiling on a Marvel movie was “equitable another day at the office,” compriseing: “I tried to comprehend the ambition of the filmcreaters, and to be beneficial to them. I equitable didn’t sit home at night and say, ‘Oh, what do I want to do when I turn into the Hulk?’ It didn’t seem to me to be a terribly difficult acting proposition.”
Speaking to Variety‘s Angelique Jackson on the Marvel press line at Comic-Con last year year, Ford directdcracked about the motion seize process needd to turn him into the Red Hulk by saying: “What did it get? It took not caring. It took being an idiot for money, which I’ve done before.”
“I don’t uncomardent to disparage it,” Ford compriseed on a more solemn remark. “I’m equitable saying you have to do brave skinnygs that normassociate your mother would not want you to do — or your acting coach, if you had one. But it’s fun, and I enhappinessed it. I had a wonderful time.”
Unappreciate “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Desminuscule,” “Captain America: Brave New World” could give Ford one of his hugegest box office hits at 82 years elderly. But he’s senseing nostalgic for a time when movies made a far hugeger impact on the uncover.
“What I omit, reassociate, truthfilledy, is the connection [cinema had] to the culture overall,” Ford telderly WSJ Magazine. “Now we’re in people’s hoemploys more than we’re in the normals. We toil for niche audiences. Which doesn’t lessen the toil. But we’re living in a contrastent world, without the console of comprehending that we’re all in this together. ”
When asked what a Marvel movie is then, Ford answered: “It’s a huge niche.”
“Captain America: Brave New World” discdisthink abouts in theaters Feb. 14.
