This Hollywood Icon Loves Making Movies the ‘Old-Fashioned’ Way
By Movieguide® Contributor
Hollywood icon Harrison for gravitates to creating “old-fashioned” projects, something his show 1923 allows him to do.
“I love the viscerality of it, I love the physical nature of the storytelling, I love being in natural circumstances,” Ford told The Hollywood Reporter.
“It’s a kind of old-fashioned movie-making mostly, no CGI or very little CGI — a little something to sweeten the location,” he added. “But it’s really essential, old-time storytelling, and I love working with this kind of material.”
Season 2 of 1923 just began streaming on Paramount+ and stars Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar and Julia Schlaepfer alongside Ford.
A prequel to YELLOWSTONE, 1923 sees “the Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression,” according to its logline.
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Ford opened up about the physical demands of the show in a conversation with PEOPLE.
“I think the demands are not really as daunting as they look,” he expressed.
He added, “Maybe from a contemporary point of view, the horses represent something — some special skill or danger — but they really are not. I spent half an hour on a horse, and from a contemporary point of view, you look at that, and say, ‘Whoa, people used to do that,’ but it really is not that difficult.”
Mirren said that’s because Ford is “a great rider. I was incredibly impressed, I have to say, with watching him gallop off across the Montana hillside.”
Brian Geraghty, who plays Zane Davis, added, “You know, they’d be like, ‘Harrison, slow down next time.’ ‘Yeah, yeah, I got it.’ And then he just flies off and you’re like trying to do the scene with him, we had a great time. He’s just a hoot, man. He’s so much fun. So I was so happy, so pleasantly surprised to see how much fun and how hard he worked.”
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