One of Harrison Ford’s most legendary lines in Empire Strikes Back was improvised and made George Lucas “go apes**t”.
The legendary actor who turns 82 today (June 13) apparently took exception to the script written by Lucas, and put his own spin on it. His alternative was then said to have sent the brains behind the Hollywood franchise into a tailspin, but ultimately conceded that Ford was right.
The part in question came during one scene when the budding love between Ford’s Han Solo and Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia finally comes to a head. Facing the possibility of being frozen in carbonite, Han and the princess kiss b before she declares her love for him.
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In the original script Ford’s character returns her declaration of love, just as viewers would have predicted.
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“I love you,” Leia was scripted to say. “I love you, too,” Han would respond.
But when the cast and crew came to film the scene, Ford wasn’t entirely happy with how it had been written, finding it out of character for Han to be so willingly open with his emotions.
“I thought it was a lost opportunity,” he told Jon Favreau in Cowboys and Aliens Interviews.
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“I mean, this character had never behaved so unabashedly, emotional and conventional before and I thought, ‘Are we p***ing away this great opportunity for the character?’ You want your badasses to be a badass til the end.”
Hoping to play the scene in a manner that was more true to the cocky character he had created, Ford requested they amend the scene.
His idea for the replacement line came from the question: “What’s the last thing a woman wants to hear when she says, ‘I love you’?”
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The answer, Ford decided, was, “I know.”
Despite director Irvin Kershner being delighted with the take, according to Ford, creator George Lucas was not happy with the line and went “apes**t”.
Ford said: “I think it’s fair enough to say he went apes**t. He thought it was horrible and that it would get a bad laugh.”
According to Ford, he was then made to sit with Lucas at a test screening, where it would receive a laugh – “a laugh of recognition,” the actor clarified. “And so, he generously let it stay in the movie,” Ford concluded.
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