Harrison Ford was ”virtually killed” by actor Garrett Wang when he very practically ran him over.
The ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ star has confessed to coming perilously near ”maiming” the enduring actor – who’s finest recognized for starring as Han Solo within the ‘Star Wars’ films, which is usually thought-about to be the rival franchise to ‘Star Trek’ amongst followers – when he was ”rushing” across the parking zone at Paramount Studios after being late to an audition.
Recalling the shut name, Garrett mentioned: ”I’m truly rushing across the [Paramount Studios] parking zone, and I come round this one bend, and this man in a swimsuit walks between two vehicles proper in entrance of my automobile, so I slam on my brakes.
”You know once you virtually have an accident; your coronary heart is thrashing a thousand miles a minute? I lock eyes with this dude within the swimsuit, and it is Harrison Ford! I take a look at him, and I am going ‘Oh my god! I virtually killed Han Solo!’ I’d have been hated by nerds in all places!”
Garrett – who performed Ensign Harry Kim in ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ from 1995 to 2001 – later found Harrison was on the studios for a screening of the 1994 film ‘Clear and Present Danger’, and could not consider he had virtually ”crippled” the enduring film star.
Speaking on the ‘Delta Flyers’ podcast, the 51-year-old actor mentioned: ”I bear in mind studying the Variety paper, our Hollywood commerce paper, the following day, and on the entrance web page was a photograph that mentioned ‘Harrison Ford at Paramount Studios for the ‘Clear and Present Danger’ screening.’ He was there for that, primarily based on the Tom Clancy novel, carrying that very same swimsuit I virtually maimed him in. He may have been a cripple, due to me.”
Meanwhile, Harrison isn’t any stranger to residing dangerously, as final yr he revealed he is eager to turn out to be a professional skydiver.
The 77-year-old actor jumped out of airplane in New Zealand as a result of his teenage son Liam Flockhart ”needed to” and, though he was initially hesitant, the ‘Indiana Jones’ star actually loved falling to the bottom whereas strapped to a parachute and would now prefer to take the coaching to turn out to be a solo skydiver.
He mentioned: ”[I was] strapped to the chest of an actual skydiver. Next time, I wish to go away that man on the bottom. He appeared like a really good man, however I wish to take the coaching after which be capable of do it myself.”
