Ford and Gosling go head to head in ‘Blade Runner 2049’
LOS ANGELES: Harrison Ford has a running joke that he cannot remember Ryan Gosling’s name. “I was delighted for a chance to work with the kid. What is his name?” Ford told The Associated Press earlier this year.
He did it again recently on a talk show, this time sitting next to Gosling.
“Ryan?” Ford asked his “Blade Runner 2049” co-star after a brief pause, dutifully playing the part of the “slightly aloof 75-year-old legend.”
“It is Ryan,” responded Gosling, 36, in a deadpan voice, playing the “bemused costar” role in the bit.
Or perhaps it is not a bit at all. It is hard to tell with these two, who somehow manage to whiplash between sincerity, sarcasm and humor in a three-word response.
In a recent interview with The AP it is clear, however, that Ford and Gosling are genuinely amused by one another, even if Ford might not actually know how old his co-star is.
AP: Did you two know each other before? FORD: Him? No. I met him once or twice casually. But I knew his work. I loved his ambitions. I loved his choices. I loved the filmmakers he chose to work with when he could have had much more obvious choices and I loved what it produced ... But the producers had been thinking about him anyway so it did not matter what I thought.
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AP: You had some pretty harrowing stunts, including a big set piece in a water tank.
GOSLING: It was a lot like it looks like on camera.
FORD: Things go a lot slower when you are working with mechanical beasts and wave machines. The time between the time it takes to take the takes takes... Let me say that again: The time between the time it takes to take the takes, it is not the time it takes to take the takes, it is the time between it takes to take the takes that takes the time.
GOSLING: Is this what peyote feels like? FORD: (laughs) I would not know.
AP: People have made a big deal about you accidentally punching Ryan, but what was it like to perform that long fight sequence? GOSLING: Squirrely.
FORD: It is complicated.
GOSLING: Touch and go.
FORD: It is complicated
GOSLING: Hit or miss.
FORD: It was a lot of hitting and only one failure to miss. But the camera was moving, Ryan was moving backward, I am moving forward. I am the one who can see where the camera is. There are strobe lights going on at the same time. He is reacting to the punches. It was complicated and that is fun. It is physical but it is fun. I remember that couple of days being great until I had to humiliate myself with an apology.
FORD: I had to crawl to your dressing room carrying a bottle of scotch.
GOSLING: He came in and said, “I forgive you.”
FORD: Yeah.
GOSLING: Which was interesting that he describes it as crawling to my dressing room to say, “I forgive you.”
FORD: I did not need to say that. GOLSING: No, you did not! That was big of you.
FORD: A lot of guys would not have made the effort. But I reached out.