The rise of Harrison Ford would have been with early rejection.
In a recent Variety interview, the Indiana Jones Star opened a overwhelming moment in the 1960s, when he was a young actor who won only $ 150 per week under contract with Columbia Pictures.
It could have been a major snob that could have ended his career before he even started.
After winning his first appearance on the screen in Dead heat on a merry -go -roundThe emblematic actor was summoned to the office of the chief of the new talent of the studio, awaiting praise or at least a stroke of encouragement.
However, he was told categorically that he had “no future in the business”.
He even recalled how the executive even pushed him to abandon his name and to obtain a more trendy look.
“He wanted me to change my name. He thought that Harrison Ford was too pretentious name for a young man, then he asked me to cut my hair like Elvis Presley,” the actor said at the point of sale and pointed out: “that I did not accept.”
He added: “I lasted about a year and a half of a seven -year contract.”
Now years later, when Harrison had become a familiar name thanks to Star Wars,, Blade runnerAnd Indiana JonesHe met the same executive again.
“I met him later in a crowded part,” he shared and told, “he had sent me a card to which he wrote:” I missed my assumption. And I looked around and I did not remember which he was, but then he nodded to my head and smiled, and I thought: “Oh, yeah, I know you.” “”
