He kilt it.
Joel Edgerton has revealed how he received Harrison Ford to don a kilt in a brand new whisky advert marketing campaign he directed.
Edgerton, 50, who has starred in movies akin to Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” and directed “Boy Erased” and “The Gift,” spoke about working with Ford, 82, in an interview with Selection revealed on Tuesday, the identical day the promos for Glenmorangie Scotch Whisky had been launched.
Titled “Once Upon a Time in Scotland,” the marketing campaign consists of a collection of episodic movies that observe Ford, who performs himself, as he journeys to Glenmorangie’s Highland house, Andross Citadel in Scotland.
Along with his attribute prickly demeanor, Ford insists he gained’t be doing “all that action man s–t that they want” earlier than including that he “will sit by the fire and drink.” Elsewhere within the collection, Ford meditates, rides a motorcycle, will get the boozy time by the hearth that he needed and tries on a kilt.
Regardless of Ford’s perceived Edge, Edgerton says he found the “Star Wars” icon has a softer aspect.
“I’d watched a lot of his interviews, and I realized that true or false, there’s a persona of Harrison’s that is quite gruff and, you know, grumpy, but he’s a bit like an avocado,” the actor and filmmaker defined.
“He’s rock solid on the outside but he’s very soft in the middle. He has an emotional softness and a sensitivity and a humanity that he then covers with this sort of prickly outside.”
As for a way Edgerton received Ford to put on a kilt, all of it got here right down to constructing belief.
Recalling the primary time they met, Edgerton shared, “While he was shaking my hand, he said, ‘I heard they want me to ride a horse and fly a plane, and I’m not doing any of that.’ I felt good because that’s exactly what the first spot was going to be about — him going, ‘I don’t want to do what they want me to do.’ We hit it off and by the end of the meeting, he was like, ‘I’ll do whatever you want me to do.’”
“We had a beautiful kilt made,” Edgerton added, noting, “When I was younger, I never thought I’d ever have lunch with Harrison so I certainly could never have imagined that one day I’d be working with Harrison Ford and that these words were going to come out of my mouth, ‘Harrison, can I get you to wear a kilt?’”
The director additionally revealed that Ford is considered one of his heroes.
“I am aware that you got to be careful about meeting your heroes. I did wonder, ‘Is Harrison best left as a hero in my mind?’” he remembered musing.
“There’s a certain actor in Hollywood who said, ‘Never meet your heroes unless they’re Harrison Ford’ and he was f–king right, man. He was such a legend in person as much as he lives as a legend in my mind.”
