In an expansive profile of the Hollywood legend Harrison Ford for Wall Street Journal, a range of his co-stars were interviewed about him, including his co-star in 1923, Dame Helen Mirren, who shared “something rather magical has happened to Harrison”.
After playing a married couple in The Mosquito Ghost 40 years ago, the pair have reunited for the Yellowstone prequel, 1923.
She said: “Something rather magical has happened to Harrison, especially with his history of, you know, being the dude, the bloke, the fabulous action guy, the funny guy, the cool guy.
“Now there’s this open road to his inner feelings, which he is absolutely unafraid of expressing,” she continued, referring especially to his role in Apple TV+’s hit comedy-drama Shrinking. “It’s just a true, quick, instinctive emotional reaction to things, without sentimentality.”
She clarified that she believed surviving the plane crash was what led to these changes, recalling: “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’.
“I think, maybe, going through that experience just gave him a very different understanding of what it is to be a sentient human being.”
During the interview, she also spoke about their first meeting, calling herself a “nobody” in Hollywood at the time compared to the Indiana Jones actor.
“He was a huge star and he really didn’t want to be,” she revealed. “He wanted to just be a quiet person getting on with life, and of course, that’s kind of impossible.”
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