tom selleck was supposed to play indiana jones before harrison ford.
tom selleck was supposed to play indiana jones before harrison ford.
who was supposed to play indiana jones before harrison ford?
tom selleck
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ford's status as a leading actor was solidified when he starred as globe-trotting archeologist indiana jones in the film "raiders of the lost ark" (1981), a collaboration between george lucas and steven spielberg. though spielberg was interested in casting ford from the beginning, lucas was not, due to having already worked with the actor in "american graffiti" and "star wars", but he eventually relented after tom selleck was unable to accept.
harrison ford
bullet::::- harrison ford as indiana jones; to prepare for the role, the 64-year-old ford spent three hours a day at a gym, practiced with the bullwhip for two weeks, and relied on a high-protein diet of fish and vegetables. ford had kept fit during the series' hiatus anyway, as he hoped for another film. he performed many of his own stunts because stunt technology had become safer since 1989, and he also felt it improved his performance. he argued, "the appeal of indiana jones isn't his youth but his imagination, his resourcefulness. his physicality is a big part of it, especially the way he gets out of tight situations. but it's not all hitting people and falling from high places. my ambition in action is to have the audience look straight in the face of character and not at the back of a capable stuntman's head. i hope to continue that no matter how old i get." ford felt his return would also help american culture be less paranoid about aging (he refused to dye his hair for the role), because of the film's family appeal: "this is a movie which is geared not to [the young] segment of the demographic, an age-defined segment [...] we've got a great shot at breaking the movie demographic constraints." he told koepp to add more references to his age in the script. spielberg said ford was not too old to play indiana: "when a guy gets to be that age and he still packs the same punch, and he still runs just as fast and climbs just as high, he's gonna be breathing a little heavier at the end of the set piece. and i felt, 'let's have some fun with that. let's not hide that. spielberg recalled the line in "raiders", "it's not the years, it's the mileage," and felt he could not tell the difference between ford during the shoots for "last crusade" and "kingdom of the crystal skull".
indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull