This is the Harrison Ford scene you didn’t see in ‘E.T.’
nypost.comRaiders of the Lost Ark,” Ford had agreed to a cameo as Elliott’s school principal. Played by Henry Thomas, Elliott is the young boy who befriends E.T.
before trying to help him get back home.In the deleted footage, Ford admonishes Elliott for freeing frogs in class.“Elliot is in the principal’s office after the frog incident,” Spielberg told Entertainment Weekly. “We don’t ever see Harrison’s face.
We just hear his voice, see his body.”The darkly lit scene was an “odd sequence,” reporter Anthony Breznican noted.“I see the pot, the pills, the angel wings,” Ford, as the school principal, drones on in the cut footage, lecturing Elliott on drug use.In the film, Elliott and E.T.
are psychically linked. “So as E.T. is lifting all of the communicator paraphernalia up the stairs, Henry starts rising off the ground in the chair until his head hits the ceiling,” Spielberg said.Harrison’s back is turned so this feat remains unnoticed.Ultimately, Spielberg dropped the scene because much of the movie was shot from a child’s perspective and no adult faces — except for Elliott’s mom, Mary, played by Dee Wallace — are seen until the last part of the movie.
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