AGEING actor Harrison Ford has forgotten his starring role in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it emerged last night.
As he hit out at ‘soulless’ action movies filled with computer generated images, worried friends telephoned to see if he had forgotten being in any other films.
John Rhys-Davies, who first appeared with Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark, said: “As I read his words I thought, ‘Harrison, my friend, it was only three years ago that you were paid millions of dollars to appear in a film that was basically a lot of CGI, an absurd plot and was so soulless it seemed to have machine-gunned not only its own soul but the soul of everyone who saw it’.”
Rhys-Davies, who also played Gimli, the freakishly tall Welshman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, added: “I telephoned him and it seems he does remember being in Raiders, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade, The Fugitive, Clear and Present Danger, the original Star Wars trilogy, Blade Runner and Air Force One.
“He even remembers being in Patriot Games. Bloody hell.
“I had hoped that with the CGI in Crystal Skull being so appaling he may not really regard it is a CGI, but it seems he has indeed lost all memory of the six month shoot and $185m budget.
“His nurse said he doesn’t even recognise himself when he watches it. He just says, ‘that was a piece of shit – I can’t believe they thought that was a good idea’.
“It’s such a shame. He’s only 68.”
Ford gave the interview on the set of his latest film Cowboys and Aliens.
It is not a Woody Allen film.
