As it turns out, Harrison Ford was the original Tom Cruise
Long earlier than Tom Cruise was using motorcycles off cliffs, Harrison Ford was swinging from a whip and punching (pretend) Nazis.
Recommended VideosThe acclaimed actor made doing ones personal stunts cool while Cruise was still dancing in his undies, and — now a full-blown octogenarian — Ford remains to be at it. He can’t rather organize a lot of the stunts he took on in his formative years, but the 80-year-old actor still performs many of his stunts on this month’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. That’s impressive all on its own, but a ways cooler when the actor’s history with stunts is considered.
Many people, including Ford’s stunt double from all 3 original Indiana Jones flicks, have noted the actor’s affinity for stunt work. His longtime stunt double, Vic Armstrong, even pulled him apart at one point right through filming for The Last Crusade, in line with IMDb, to urge him to go into reverse a bit of. He was so interested by doing his own stunts that Armstrong was compelled to induce the megastar to let him “perform a little paintings” for the movie, a trend that it appears began with Raiders of the Lost Ark.
A quote from Armstrong handiest reinforces this concept. The stellar stuntman was fast to praise Ford’s efficiency, noting that “If he wasn’t this sort of great actor, he would have made a in reality nice stuntman.”
Ford echoed a equivalent sentiment towards Armstrong in a separate interview, following years of suffering from mistaken identification. Armstrong reportedly appears to be like such a lot like Ford that the two had been ceaselessly mistaken for one another all the way through filming for all three original Indiana Jones flicks, and it became an ongoing comic story amongst the solid and workforce. So much so, in fact, that Ford referenced it in a message to Armstrong at the conclusion of filming for The Last Crusade, writing “Vic, should you learn how to communicate I'm in deep trouble” on a picture he signed for his longtime stunt guy and friend.
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