“I like getting old!” said Harrison Ford, 80, at Cannes, where he was presenting the latest Indiana Jones, in which special effects recreate his features as a young man.
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Hollywood cinema loves this kind of digital facelift more and more, the first half hour of this fifth opus of the archaeologist’s adventures, which Ford lends his features one last time, is particularly impressive.
“I don’t turn around and say, ‘I wish I could be that guy again, because I’m not.’ I like getting old, it was great being young but damn I could be dead I’m just old!” he joked at a press conference.
The legend of American cinema Harrison Ford, who surprisingly received the Palme d’Or before the film’s official screening on Thursday night, has no intention of retiring after saying goodbye to the character of Indiana Jones, making it the most iconic of his career is from Han Solo in Star Wars.
He confirmed that he will continue to work on the series 1923 (Paramount+) and Shrinking (Apple TV).
Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, the Disney subsidiary that owns the franchise, assured her side that the studio would no longer use special effects to bring Harrison Ford back to the legendary role of Professor Jones.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny hits theaters in late June.