A real-life meet-cute. Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart‘s first encounter was straight out of a rom-com — albeit one set among the Hollywood A-list.The Star Wars actor and the Ally McBeal alum initially met at the 2002 Golden Globe Awards.
Reports circulated at the time that Flockhart got her future husband’s attention by intentionally spilling a drink on him, but the Emmy nominee later said that wasn’t the case.“We were having a conversation for maybe 20 minutes before the wine spilled, and the truth is, Harrison spilled the wine!” Flockhart told Hello!
magazine in June 2003.In the same interview, the Witness star gushed about his romance with Flockhart, who is 22 years his junior. “I’m in love,” Ford told the outlet. “Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love, and I think there is a potential for it at any stage of your life.
I was not surprised that I was able to fall in love, and I wasn’t surprised that I did.”Flockhart, for her part, said the pair’s age difference wasn’t something she thought about much. “It doesn’t faze me,” she explained. “It doesn’t factor into our relationship at all.
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