The interpreter of Indiana Jones and Han Solo was the victim of an accident in his youth which left him a discreet but not invisible scar on his face.
You have to be very observant to notice it, but it is there: the scar on Harrison Ford’s chin. With her deep voice and her charming smile, she is an integral part of the actor’s signature of Star Wars And blade runnercurrently playing the latest opus ofIndianaJones At the movie theater. And if the actor was the victim of a plane crash a few years ago and an accident on the set of episode 7 of Star Warsnone of these events is the cause of this distinctive scar.
If you noticed it, you’re not the only ones, since several screenwriters have included this scar in some Harrison Ford films. In Working Girl, in 1988, the scar of his character, Jack Trainer, is thus explained by a fall. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusadewe discover our hero, then a teenager and embodied by River Phoenix, injuring himself with his whip, permanently opening his forehead.
He was on his way to work and it wasn’t a shoot
The true origin of Harrison Ford’s scar, however, is less epic. We must go back to the young years of the actor, long before he became famous in Hollywood, to find the anecdote. When the future actor was 22 years old, he was the victim of a car accident as banal as violent.
Harrison Ford was then working in a department store in California near Laguna Beach and was on his way to work when he lost control of his vehicle. The machine will be embedded in an electric pole, and the future actor will come out of it very fortunately unscathed, or almost. The various biographies of the star tell that Harrison Ford was trying to fasten his seat belt when he left the road and that it was while hitting the steering wheel that the future Indiana Jones split his chin. It was the emergency operation to sew it up that left the indelible mark that is now its signature.