Conan O’Brien and Harrison Ford.Photo:YouTube/Team Coco
YouTube/Team Coco
Harrison Fordisn’t afraid to poke some fun at his friends.
On a recent appearance onConan O’Brien’s podcast,Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Ford got in a few zingers while chatting with the comedian and host.
The pair were talking about his heritage when the talk show host mentioned that Ford was Irish German. TheIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destinyactor corrected him, saying that his dad was “Irish Irish,” explaining that there’s no German ancestry at all.
“Well if that’s the quality of your research,” Ford, 80, said to the former late night talk show host, “and I imagine it is because right there it says ‘Harrison Ford’ and then you had to write ‘Han Solo,' ” Ford said.
“You can’t f—— remember that?” he asked jokingly.
“No I can’t. I can’t remember Han Solo,” O’Brien said in response while laughing. “I wrote it down because I heard that you were in some of theStar Warsfilms, and this was news to me because I’ve seen those films and I don’t exactly think that you ‘pop.'”
“I’m sorry,” O’Brien continued. “But I mean, I remember Chewbacca, I remember the bad guy with the black helmet and then… there’s some people.”
Ford quickly responded: “How come you’re not still on television?” getting big laughs from O’Brien and his co-hosts, Sona Movsesian and Matt Gourley.
Ford recently admitted he won’t be retiring anytime soon.
When Ford appeared onWho’s Talking to Chris Wallace?, the actor told host Chris Wallace, “I don’t do well when I don’t have work,” when askedwhether he’s given retirement any thought.
“I love to work. I love to feel useful. It’s my jones,” Ford, who turns 81 next month, said during the interview. “I want to be helpful.”
Harrison Ford.Mike Coppola/Getty
Mike Coppola/Getty
“I feel very strongly that it does [pull it off],” he added, before noting: “It’s time for me to grow up,” as he moves on from the longtime action-adventure franchise.
“Six years ago, I thought maybe we ought to take a shot at making another one. And I wanted it to be about age because I think that rounds out the story that we’ve told and we’ve brought it to the right place,” he said, opining that 2008’sKingdom of the Crystal Skulldid not end with “a real strong feeling of the conclusion or the closure that I always hoped for.”
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“Speaking to this issue of age, not making jokes about it, but but making it a real thing,” Ford added of his desire for the new film.When Ford — who has beenfilming scenes for the nextCaptain Americamovielately — spoke with PEOPLE recently, he said he has not lost any of his love for the film industry.
“I probably enjoy making movies more now than I ever did,” he said. “I don’t want to be young again. I was young, and now I enjoy being old.”
source: people.com
