As a core member of Hollywood’s beloved elite, Harrison Ford has been around the block a time or two, and that includes just about every kind of block there is. And while there are so many elements about his long and esteemed career that others would love to enjoy for their own, perhaps one that’s lesser-envied would be the actor’s occasional penchant for injurious mishaps on the set and off. I’m not sure every living actor would love having multiple life-threatening accidents in their past to compare fictional character injuries to, but Ford recently talked about reliving some of those anxious and hectic feelings from his near-fatal plane crash in 2015 while filming the first season of 1923.
Though Harrison Ford wasn’t ever a ranch-owning badass living in Montana in the early 20th century, the actor told People that he was still taken aback by how much of Taylor Sheridan’s written narrative for Jacob Dutton through Season 1 served as a subtle reflection of Ford’s own experiences. In particular, he talked about how the moments surrounding Jacob getting shot during the sheepherder ambush in Episode 104 brought him right back to the aftermath of his scary plane crash. In his words:
