Jeffrey Wright stated Harrison Ford inadvertently taught him a lesson in respect greater than three many years in the past that also sticks.
During an look on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the “American Fiction” star recalled working with Ford for the 1990 movie “Presumed Innocent.”
It was Wright’s first main movie. He had a small position, and barely a penny in his pocket, he stated, and “I had no idea what I was doing.”
Ford, the star, was on the peak of his profession, but “he was so wonderful. He was so, so gracious,” Wright recalled.
There was one explicit second that stood out to Wright. During rehearsals in the future, director Alan Pakula shouted out to Ford from the opposite facet of the set.
Harrison replied: “Sir?”
“It was like, whoa. This is not like the fun and games that I expected. This is not like, loosen the pants. There’s a level of respect and a level of decorum that he’s showing here to this man and to the process,” Wright instructed Jimmy Kimmel. “And it really it really stayed with me.”
Kimmel stated it was an incredible lesson.
“If Han Solo can say ‘sir,’ so can everyone else,” he quipped.
“Exactly,” replied Wright.
He stated he had seen Ford on the Golden Globes on Sunday evening, and his children obtained a chance to fulfill the legendary actor.
When he instructed Ford about that second and what it meant to him, the actor didn’t bear in mind it, however “he was kind of touched by it,” Wright stated.
Watch his interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” beneath.
