Harrison Ford endured a ‘sophisticated’ on-set feud with Brad Pitt
Harrison Ford could also be selling Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, however he at all times has one eye on the place he got here from.
During a brand new interview, he talked concerning the 1997 image The Devil’s Own, which he labored on with Brad Pitt.
As it seems, the film was crammed with rigidity behind the scenes, as each of the main actors had differing opinions on how the image should go.
Ford defined that when he was first employed for the film he saved his criticisms to himself.
He informed Esquire: “Brad developed the script. Then they offered me the part. I saved my comments about the character and the construction of the thing — I admired Brad. First of all, I admire Brad. I think he’s a wonderful actor. He’s a really decent guy.”
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Ford went on to say they “couldn’t agree on a director” till they each landed on the filmmaker Alan Pakula.
“I had worked with [Pakula] before, but Brad had not,” Ford mentioned.
The Star Wars actor then defined that he needed some extra depth in his character, so started rewriting the half.
“Brad had this complicated character,” Ford mentioned. “And I wanted a complication on my side so that it wasn’t just a good-and-evil battle. And that’s when I came up with the bad-shooting thing.”
The star referenced a scene within the film the place his character witnessed a police officer killing somebody, putting the protagonist in an ethical quandary.
Before lengthy, issues obtained sophisticated between Ford and Pitt. “I worked with a writer,” Ford mentioned. “But then all the sudden we’re shooting and we didn’t have a script that Brad and I agreed on. Each of us had different ideas about it.”
It would not sound like Ford holds any grudges concerning the expertise, although. “I understand why he wanted to stay with his point of view, and I wanted to stay with my point of view — or I was imposing my point of view, and it’s fair to say that that’s what Brad felt. It was complicated.”
He added: “I like the movie very much. Very much.”
Meanwhile, Pitt beforehand referred to as the movie’s manufacturing “the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking – if you can even call it that – that I’ve ever seen”.