Rumors of Pratt taking up the function first started to swirl in 2015.
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Don’t anticipate Chris Pratt to brandish a bullwhip whereas carrying a fedora anytime quickly.
Showing on the “Completely happy Unhappy Confused” podcast, the 43-year-old actor stated he has no plans to step into Indiana Jones’s boots, which have belonged to Harrison Ford since 1981.
Revealing the rationale behind his resolution to keep away from the franchise, Pratt blamed Ford’s previous feedback and stated they scared him to even contemplate taking up the function sooner or later.
“All I do know is I as soon as noticed a quote from Harrison Ford … and I don’t even know if it was actually him, nevertheless it was sufficient to scare me, that was like, ‘After I die, Indiana Jones dies,'” he stated within the podcast launched Tuesday.
“I’m like, ‘Am I gonna, like, get haunted by the ghost of Harrison Ford at some point when he dies if I play…?'”
Pratt is seemingly referring to Ford’s 2019 interview on The Immediately Present, the place he stated, “Don’t you get it? I’m Indiana Jones. After I’m gone, he’s gone. It’s straightforward.”
“It is a hell of a method to inform Chris Pine this. I’m sorry, man,” the actor, 80, stated laughing, jokingly mistaking Pratt for Pine.
Rumors of Pratt taking up the function first started to swirl in 2015 after Disney purchased the film rights for the movie from Paramount simply two years prior.
“That’s not something that's actual,” Pratt stated, slashing any hopes of him taking up the function.
Ford has performed the function in 4 motion pictures, beginning with Raiders of the Misplaced Ark again in 1981 earlier than Temple of Doom (1984), The Final Campaign (1989) and Kingdom of the Crystal Cranium (2008).
It comes as actor Antonio Banderas, who additionally stars within the upcoming Indiana Jones movie, instructed USA Immediately how “unbelievable” it was seeing Ford on set in costume.
“The primary day I arrived, I used to be within the make-up trailer, and I rotated, and there he was within the full Indiana costume with the hat and the whip,” he instructed the outlet.
“Phoebe Waller-Bridge was there with him, too, and it was so cool. I nonetheless bear in mind the primary time I noticed ‘Indiana Jones’ in a theater and the group was loopy about it.”
“I believed, ‘That is like going again to the previous journey (motion pictures) in a very totally different approach,'” Banderas added.
The fifth installment of the “Indiana Jones” franchise shall be launched on June 30, 2023.
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