Here's Why Harrison Ford Thanked Tom Selleck While Talking About 'Indiana Jones 5'

Harrison Ford has suited up for the latest premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!

The 80-year-old actor met up with co-stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, John Rhys-Davies, as well as director James Mangold and producers Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Simon Emanuel, for the red carpet affair held at Cineworld Leicester Square in London on Monday (June 26).

In a recent interview, Harrison opened up about why he’s thankful for Tom Selleck while discussing the movie – and there’s an important reason why.

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Turns out that if not for Tom, Harrison would have never gotten the role.

“Tom Selleck had the job, but he also incurred an obligation to do a television series and he was unable to get out of that contract,” Harrison explained during the casts’ time in Italy over the weekend. “I became the ‘second’ choice.”

He added that he’s “very grateful for Tom. Thank you, Tom, man. If you’re listening, thank you again.”

After Tom passed on the role, Harrison shared that he then had the role in about an hour.

“I got a call from George Lucas. He said, ‘I’m gonna send a script up to your house.’ ‘Oh really? OK.’ ‘I want you to read it right away. I want you to read it in an hour.’ ‘Uh, OK, I’ll read it in an hour,’” he explained. “I sat down, I read it in an hour. He said, ‘I want you to go over to Steven Spielberg’s house and talk to him.’ I went over to Spielberg’s house – I’d never met Steven Spielberg before – and I guess about an hour later I had the job.”

FYI: Phoebe wore an Ashi Studio look.

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