Getting punched in the face by Harrison Ford felt like a rite of passage for Ryan Gosling.
The actor tells GQ magazine things went off-script on the set of “Blade Runner 2049” while filming a fight scene.
“It was kind of, you know, a rite of passage,” Gosling, 36, admits – but the face-punch was purely accidental.
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“We were just doing a fight scene and, you know, it just happened,” Gosling explains. “But what was funny was, when it was over, they brought ice for my face, and Harrison pushed me out of the way and stuck his fist in the ice.”
Ford, who is reprising his 1982 role as replicant hunter Rick Deckard in the “Blade Runner” sequel, apologized to his co-star in his own unique way.
“He came by afterward with this bottle of scotch, and I thought, ‘Oh, I knew this was coming,'” Gosling says. “And he pulled out a glass from his pocket, poured me a glass, and walked away with the rest of the bottle. So I guess he felt like he didn’t connect enough to earn a whole bottle.”
“Blade Runner 2049” director Denis Villeneuve helped Gosling see the upside of getting clocked by Ford.
“[Villeneuve] came up to me and said, ‘Look at it this way – you just got hit by Indiana Jones,'” says Gosling. “You know, they say don’t meet your heroes, but I would say the addendum to that is ‘…unless they’re Harrison Ford.’ Beause he’s a cool m************.”
