1 day Ago By Sean Mandell
He kilt it. Joel Edgerton has revealed how he got Harrison Ford to don a kilt in a new whisky ad campaign he directed. Edgerton, 50, who has starred in films such as Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” and directed “Boy Erased” and “The Gift,” spoke about working with Ford, 82, in an interview with Variety published on Tuesday, the same day the promos for Glenmorangie Scotch Whisky were released.
Titled “Once Upon a Time in Scotland,” the campaign consists of a series of episodic films that follow Ford, who plays himself, as he journeys to Glenmorangie’s Highland home, Andross Castle in Scotland. With his characteristic prickly demeanor, Ford insists he won’t be doing “all that action man s–t that they want” before adding that he “will sit by the fire and drink.” Elsewhere in the series, Ford meditates, rides a bike, gets the boozy time by the fire that he wanted and tries on a kilt.
Despite Ford’s perceived Edge, Edgerton says he discovered the “Star Wars” icon has a softer side. “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 explained. “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 how Edgerton got Ford to wear a kilt, it all came down to building trust. Recalling the first 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 also revealed that Ford is 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.”.
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