Blade Runner 2049: Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling Talk Acting, Blade Running, and Their Pecs

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I'll follow your lead. (laughing)

I don't remember the first time we met. (laughing)

I don't. It was very forgettable.

It was memorable.

It was a hell of an entrance

because everyone was silhouetted that day.

We were just kind of checking

all the silhouettes to see if.

He has a very distinct silhouette, so

when he kind of came out of the darkness, it was

almost as though he'd planned it.

Did you?

No. Oh, okay.

No, I didn't. (laughing)

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I thought it was my idea, actually.

[Interviewer] Oh really? (laughing)

And then it turned out that everybody else

thought that it was perfect for Ryan as well.

But I had seen him in a couple of films and

admired the work he did and

wanted to work with him and when I read this character,

I thought this is perfect and I mentioned it to them

and they said well,

funny enough, that's who we were thinking of as well.

He wanted a percentage of my fee as well,

which he took.

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I think the idea of it is intimidating, but

I'm disappointed it's over because (laughing)

he has such a great,

one of the hardest things to do, I think

as an actor is to take it seriously

but not take it too seriously and

strike some kind of balance within that and

he walks that line so effortlessly you forget

there's a line there at all.

He has such an incredible focus and intensity

while he's working, that it's really

the perfect balance and

you just wish it could be like that all the time.

How do you like to be complimented, is that?

I think you're doing great.

I have no complaints so far. (laughing)

I was just gonna say exactly the same thing about you,

only I was gonna spin it out a little bit.

Try and make it sound like I really meant it.

(laughing)

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No. No.

No. No.

No. No.

He had his palatial dressing room, (laughing)

I had my

palatial motor home.

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Well, I don't know.

I didn't think there was any contest.

Yeah, there was never a moment where Harrison

was like I'm gonna go wail on my pecks.

There was never any doubt.

You want to come?

You never asked me to go wail on my pecks.

No, no. Thank you for that.

Thank you. (laughing)

It's a physically demanding movie, we both,

I'm recuperating from a plane crash.

I don't know what happened to him. (laughing)

I don't have a good excuse.

But we were both trying to keep fit for

whatever demands the movie might place on us.

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I was never a mousekateer.

(laughing)

You weren't? No.

You didn't have the stones for it.

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There was nothing good about being a contract player.

There was nothing good at all, I had to do

whatever they

required you to do and

you had no choice.

I didn't, at least.

I was under contract to Columbia and then

under contract to

Universal for a short period of time.

It was a nightmare.

But thanks for asking.

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[Interviewer] I knew that was coming,

I knew there was a (mumbling).

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I never listen to what they say, do you?

No, I don't.

It just kinda goes in one and.

Yeah, I don't know.

I would be very suspicious of anybody that had advice.

(laughing)

Let me tell you something, do this or do that.

Kind of obscure things are sometimes useful.

Mike Nichols said don't let them

turn you into a thing.

That was good advice.

I have no idea what it means but

I thought it was really good advice.

Didn't you have a stage name at one point?

There was a Harrison Ford, when I went to sign up

for the Screen Actors Guild, I got the first

three jobs, you know you can do three jobs

without having to be a member of the Screen Actors Guild

and I went to the Screen Actors Guild,

and they said sign this, blah blah blah.

Then they said wait wait, you can't be Harrison Ford,

and I said why not.

They said 'cause there is a Harrison Ford already.

And it turned out he was 93 years old,

he was a silent screen star.

And they said,

what do you want to be called?

I said, Harrison J. Ford.

And I was Harrison J. Ford, that's the only,

is that what you were thinking of?

No. No.

(laughing)

Kurt Affair. That's right.

But that was the studio wanted me to change my name.

Right.

Then they came back and I said I'll change my name

to Kurt Affair.

And then, said get the fuck out of here.

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