HARRISON FORD is best known for playing Han Solo in the Star Wars series, but he also has quite the reputation in Hollywood. One star, Alec Baldwin, does not remember the actor in a good way, and once called him out for being “scrawny” and “wiry”.
Earlier this week, on July 13, 2022, Harrison Ford turned 80-years-old. The legendary American star has appeared in a staggering amount of successful franchises over his 50-year career – including Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Blade Runner just to name a few.
But a deep rift formed between him and Alec Baldwin over one of the star’s 1990 film franchises. Some barbed words were swapped between the stars.
Baldwin starred in The Hunt For Red October in 1990 as Jack Ryan – one of Tom Clancy’s most iconic and revered characters of all time.
The actor did a stand-up job and was due to be welcomed back in the film’s sequel, Patriot Games, which was going to hit cinemas two years later in 1992.
But things changed behind the scenes. Ford swooped in and took the role from Baldwin over a “debt” Paramount owed to the Han Solo star.
Baldwin revealed: “[Director] John [McTiernan] further told me that Paramount owed the actor [Ford] a large sum of money for a greenlit film that fell apart prior to this, and pushing me aside would help to alleviate that debt and put someone with much greater strength at the box office than mine in the role.”
Baldwin admitted to sitting “mildly stunned” after learning he had been pushed aside by Paramount behind the scenes to the person he described as “a little man”.
Ford was asked at the time by McTiernan if he knew he was taking Baldwin’s role.
According to Baldwin’s memoir, Ford’s reply was: “F**k him.”
It didn’t take long for Baldwin to start hitting back at Ford, however.
The actor’s 2017 memoir, Nevertheless, had a whole passage dedicated to describing Ford.
Baldwin scathingly wrote: “Ford, in person, is a little man, short, scrawny, and wiry, whose soft voice sounds as if it’s coming from behind a door.”
Despite the stars’ bickering behind the scenes, Ford eventually claimed Baldwin’s role of Jack Ryan.
He played the character in the 1992 movie Patriot Games. But he didn’t stop there.
Ford later played the same character once again just two years later.
In 1994 Ford took on Jack Ryan once again in Clear And Present Danger.
Since then, Baldwin has not played Jack Ryan again in his career.
Instead, both stars were replaced in the Amazon Prime Video reboot of the hero’s journey when John Krasinski played the character.
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