• LUIS MARTINEZ

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Harrison Ford (Chicago, 1942) looks like an actor. In fact, he behaves as such, gives interviews as if he were promoting a movie and even allows himself to talk about what he feels on sets. And yet, as soon as one notices, that white-haired gentleman who really speaks is nothing more than a piece of the imagination of any of us.

On Thursday he unveiled what is officially his farewell to the character of the whip, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate. He did it with foggy eyes and in the company of his wife Calista Flockhart (whom, by the way, protocol incomprehensibly placed behind the husband at the gala).

Incidentally, the director of the festival surprised him with a Palme d'Or for his entire career. "They say that when you die, life happens like a flash in front of your eyes. It just happened to me... Well a good part of it, not all," he said, he was moved, he cried and everyone, absolutely everyone, cried with him. After all, he's not an actor, he's Harrison Ford. It's us.

Today her tears appear in the foreground in many media. At the presentation of the film he was really moved... If that's a question, the answer is yes. In many phases of production it seemed that the project was falling apart. And even came first to postpone, then to discard ... Has he been forced to do it or was he really a desired son? I would say that, of all the Indiana movies, this has been the most desired and pursued. I also think that it is completely different from the others. And not only obviously because of the change of director. What I always wanted was to develop the character at an age where he's completely unarmed. I wanted to see him in absolute solitude, helpless, and that it was the adventure and his new relationship with his goddaughter neglected for so long, that would bring him back to life. After all, the real heroes of our time are the old. I wanted to place Indiana face to face with its audience as it really is and without makeup, with all its years without disguising a single one. That was the challenge.

After all, the real heroes of our time are the old people.

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Harrison Ford receives an honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes

  • Editor: AFP Cannes (France)

Harrison Ford receives an honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes

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Antonio Banderas joins Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones 5'

  • Writing: EFE Los Angeles

Antonio Banderas joins Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones 5'Would you highlight a particular moment of the reunion with the character after almost 15 years? Well, the most surprising thing and what I think gives it vitality is the contribution of Phoebe Waller-Bridge [present in the interview] in the role goddaughter and true heir of the essence of the character. From the essence of Karen Allen in the first film also... I'll tell you one thing. The moment at the beginning of the film where a picture of Karen in the fridge comes out was not in the script. Among the working notes on set were photos of many characters from the previous films. There was also the fridge and above the fridge a magnet. I don't know how, probably a joke from someone, the fact is that the photo got there. But once there, the entire sequence was modified to make sense. Moreover, what happens next (we will not say what) ends up being a consequence of this coincidence. The whole plot of the film is time in general. Nostalgia is a very present element in every detail. Do you consider yourself a melancholic person? Not at all. Nostalgia plays no role in my life or career. I don't like to look back. My life begins right now. I have never made a continuation of a film of the past thinking about precisely the past. On the contrary, it is what films have to say about our present that has always moved me. If they were simply exercises in melancholy I would not have done them. I want new information, I want to explore, I want to know where we're going...

I want new information, I want to explore, I want to know where we're going...

What he just said contradicts the fact that he has done five times of Indiana Jones, two of Deckard in Blade Runner, five of Han Solo ... The first condition I put on the director when I approached a character again is that it be different. I'm the first one who doesn't want to do the same thing over and over again because I understand that the viewer doesn't want to see me doing the same thing over and over again. Making Sean Connery my father was a new experience for everyone. And that's the idea.How does it take to be a living myth for others? In fact, the only obsession that has guided my career is to be surrounded by new people, with new ideas... In this sense I play with advantage and I am somewhat selfish. I take more advantage of the inexperience of those around me than they do of my experience. For me, work is meaningless without the concept of risk. I'm never playing it safe. I jump into the water not knowing if I'm going to run out of air. If when you do something does not enter into the equation the possibility of failure does not make sense what you do. Let's get back to basics. A blatant intention of this new film is to bring together the generations, those who grew up with Indiana and those who knew Indiana on their parents' DVD. What makes Indiana so universal in an age of superheroes? Indiana is an imperfect man. He can't even be called a hero. He's not a hero, he's essentially a clumsy guy. But beyond that, he's a different character in each movie. In each apparition he is a little wiser perhaps, but like any of us he has good days, bad days and days when that wisdom is of no use to him. Its virtue is that, despite being involved in incredible adventures, it actually reacts as any of us would. And so on until one fine day, as an adult, he wakes up alone and with an empty glass in his hand. Who hasn't?

If when you do something does not enter into the equation the possibility of failure does not make sense what you do

Maybe that's why the ending is so exciting. A little bit any spectator is him... That ending of which he speaks is incredible to me seen from the outside. It's what I really like about my profession. You prepare for weeks a role, a scene, you reproduce it again and again in your imagination, you rehearse it... And when someone says "action," the scene no longer belongs to you as an actor but to the character. To me that ending is as surprising as it may seem to you. I don't recognize myself. And that's good. There will be those who from a critical point of view judge that it is right, bad or regular. But I don't mean that, I'm talking about something uncontrollable that makes this my job end up being so addictive. In real life, not only on screen, he has faced a multitude of dangers. What's more, he almost lost his life in a plane crash. I wonder what it has to do with risk, with danger. Is it one of those who needs to test their limits to feel alive? Well, you do what you do until things happen. And then you worry. But I am not one of those who seek to make things happen. I have spent 25 years of my life flying in an airplane and one day what I knew could happen happened. A mechanical failure and the engine stalled. Then you think about it. I will tell you that in that accident something magical and very cinematic happened to me. When it all happened and I was about to panic, I heard the voice of one of my mentors as a pilot who dictated to me what I had to do not to kill myself. As Obi-Wan Kenobi... Is it one of those like Tom Cruise who insists on making his own action scenes? I'm fascinated by Tom Cruise, he does amazing things. And I, as far as possible, I like physical performance. When you start practicing it and you have never done it, it ends up being quite addictive.And the incorporation of virtual effects does not detract from Indiana's authenticity? Not if they are well done. And that's how it is.

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