The Fugitive Turns 30! Harrison Ford SPILLS on the Iconic Train Scene
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00:00 (train whistling)
00:02 Well, it was all done with full scale, real trains
00:08 running into a bus.
00:09 It's fairly simple to do,
00:12 but you just run a train into a bus.
00:14 I was safely removed from the scene when it happened,
00:17 but through the magic of movies,
00:21 I appear to be jumping.
00:22 With only one chance to get it right, they nailed it.
00:28 Harrison Ford's classic, "The Fugitive,"
00:29 turns 30 this week.
00:31 And did you know the actual train and bus
00:33 can still be seen in the backwoods of North Carolina?
00:36 And while Dr. Richard Kimball survived the film intact,
00:39 Ford wasn't as lucky.
00:40 I tore the ligament in my knee the third weekend.
00:43 (explosion booms)
00:45 I planted my right foot and cut left
00:47 and could hear the arterial cruciate ligament.
00:52 For those who are technically interested, snap.
00:56 The star declined surgery at the time
00:58 and had a limp throughout the rest of the movie,
00:59 including during this famous chase sequence,
01:02 which was shot at a real St. Patrick's Day parade
01:04 in Chicago with a handheld camera,
01:06 so real parade goers wouldn't recognize the A-lister.
01:09 Alec Baldwin was originally attached to the role.
01:15 Kevin Costner, Richard Gere, and Michael Douglas
01:17 were also considered before it went to Ford.
01:20 I don't give a damn whether it's the first or the second
01:22 or the third biggest film of the summer.
01:25 I want people that see the film to feel
01:26 that they've gotten their money's worth.
01:29 The Fugitive ended up as the third highest-grossing film
01:31 of 1993, earning over $368 million.
01:36 It was also loved by critics, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes,
01:40 and even earned seven Oscar nominations,
01:42 including a Best Supporting Actor win for Tommy Lee Jones.
01:46 Go get him!
01:46 I think it's a lot of fun.
01:48 We want people to be entertained
01:52 and it seems to be entertaining.
01:55 And this iconic line?
01:57 I didn't kill my wife!
01:59 I don't care!
02:01 Jones actually improvised it.
02:03 He was originally supposed to say, "That isn't my problem."
02:07 Tommy has a lot of good lines
02:09 and he has all the fun stuff.
02:11 Do you wanna get shot?
02:13 We were both in the real location,
02:15 on the lip of the dam, looking off into this chasm.
02:20 I think it was about 225 feet above the water below.
02:24 And you were standing there.
02:26 Yeah, I was standing there.
02:27 I wasn't jumping.
02:28 This shot was actually a dummy.
02:32 Six of them, in fact, at $12,000 a pop.
02:35 But something that was real?
02:37 Ford's beard, which he grew despite protests
02:39 from the studio, which didn't like his face covered.
02:42 Period of time after Kimball's escape is only three weeks.
02:46 I wanted to take care of the dramatic obligation
02:49 to disguise myself.
02:51 And I can't grow a beard in three weeks,
02:53 but I can shave one off.
02:55 It was neat when he cut his own face off.
02:59 I love that, man.
03:00 Yeah, we did it all very quickly.
03:02 I was happy to get rid of it.
03:03 (chimes)
03:06 [BLANK_AUDIO]