Harrison Ford defends de-aging in new ‘Indiana Jones’ movie: ‘That’s what I looked like!’

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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.

And this process, this scientific mining of this library, this was put to good [use],” continued the legendary actor. “It’s just a trick unless it’s supported by a story, and it sticks out like a sore thumb if it’s not honest, it’s not real … I mean, emotionally real.

And so I think it was used very skillfully.”The Post reached out to Ford for comment. According to the prolific actor, seeing his younger self on screen was “spooky.” The film — which premiered at the iconic festival after being announced in 2022 and suffering several on and off-set problems — released a trailer in December featuring the younger-looking Ford in an apparent flashback sequence. “My hope is that, although it will be talked about in terms of technology, you just watch it and go, ‘Oh my God, they just found footage.

This was a thing they shot 40 years ago,’ ” producer Kathleen Kennedy, 69, told Empire Magazine.While the “Star Wars” actor supports the de-aging in his films, Ford revealed that he is quite happy to be in his 80s. “I’m very happy with it, but I don’t look back and say, ‘I wish I was that guy again,’ because I don’t,” commented Ford. “I’m real happy with age.