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]

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