Harrison Ford Still Thinks About His Near-Fatal Plane Crash
By Movieguide® Contributor
Helen Mirren recently shared that her 1923 co-star Harrison Ford is still affected by his 2015 plane crash.
During an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mirren recalled shooting her first scene with the actor — Ford’s character, John Dutton, was shot several times during a skirmish.
“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,’” the actress shared. “I think, maybe, going through that experience just gave him a very different understanding of what it is to be a sentient human being.”
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Ford has also drawn parallels between his near-fatal crash and his role in the YELLOWSTONE prequel 1923.
“When the scripts were coming, I was struck by how many major moments in my character’s life had a substantial and not coincidental shadow of the same things in my life,” the INDIANA JONES star told PEOPLE.
Ford continued, “Even when I talk about it now, it emotionally relates to the airplane crash I had and what my wife went through.”
In 2015, Ford crash-landed a World War II training plane on a Santa Monica golf course. He sustained a broken arm and a gash on his head.
Eyewitnesses praised the actor for his quick-thinking as the plane went down, telling NBC he “saved several lives.”
“Looking at where he crashed and how the plane went down, I’m sure there was a moment where he said, ‘I’m not going to risk lives, whatever happens, happens. It’s going to be just me,'” Eddie Aguglia, who was playing a round of golf at the time, told the outlet.
He continued, “He risked life and limb by putting it down on the golf course instead of trying to go further to try to get back to the airport. Another 25 to 30 yards and…I don’t want to think about it. He saved several lives.”
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