Harrison Ford is reacting to the de-aging featured in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
01.05.2023 - 18:19 / variety.com
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Harrison Ford is reacting to the de-aging featured in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
reports Entertainment Weekly. “I know that that is my face,” Ford, 80, said at a Cannes press conference last week. “It’s not a kind of Photoshop magic — that’s what I looked like 35 years ago.” “Because Lucasfilm has every frame of film that we’ve made together over all of these years.
Harrison Ford has defended a 25-minute scene in the forthcoming fifth installment of Indiana Jones in which he is de-aged. It comes after a recent trailer for Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny ffeatured a jaw-dropping moment when a bag is pulled from Ford’s head to reveal a significantly younger version of him created through the use of VFX technology.The film’s team shared that new VFX technology was created for the film in order to de-age the 80 year-old, using artificial intelligence to comb through all of the decades-old footage the Lucasfilm studio had of him.But it has drawn criticism from some reviewers who questioned the believability of the technology and why a younger actor couldn’t be used in Ford’s place.But he hit back in a press conference on Friday (May 19) at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.“I know that that is my face,” he said, via Entertainment Weekly. “It’s not a kind of Photoshop magic – that’s what I looked like 35 years ago.
Harrison Ford is defending the de-aging process he underwent for a flashback sequence in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The fifth installment of the James Mangold-directed film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where the star got a five-minute standing ovation.
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Harrison Ford had a hard time fighting back tears at the Cannes Film Festival in the South of France Thursday night. Ford attended the festival with wife Calista Flockhart for the premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny." This marks Ford's fifth and final movie in the franchise. Variety reported that once the film concluded, there was a standing ovation that lasted more than five minutes in the Palais des Festivals.
Harrison Ford showed off the honorary award he received at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival while attending a photocall for his new movie Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on Friday (May 19) in Cannes, France.
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Harrison Ford looked emotional as he received a five-minute standing ovation at this year’s Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.
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