Harrison Ford reflects on his years as Indiana Jones

Artificial intelligence (AI) may have been used to make Harrison Ford decades younger in parts of his final film as Indiana Jones, but the 80-year-old actor said yesterday that he loves being older and has no plans to slow down.
Ford, whose Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premiered in Cannes the previous night, has vowed this will be his last outing as the swashbuckling archaeologist after more than four decades in the role.
“I don’t look back and say, ‘I wish I was that guy again,’ because I don’t. I love being older, it was great to be young but ... I could be dead, I’m just older,” he said.
Asked why it was time to let Indy go, Ford gestured towards himself and said with his ever-present dry wit: “Urr, is it not evident?”
He first swung onto screens as the quick-witted and intrepid archaeologist with his trademark fedora and whip in 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, followed by three blockbuster sequels.
Ford also got emotional while receiving a surprise honorary Palme d’Or ahead of the premiere of the fifth instalment.
The film opens at the end of World War II with a younger-looking Ford, a feat of AI technology that uses old footage to create a de-aged version of his face.
“I know that is my face, that it is not some Photoshop magic. That’s what I looked like 35 years ago because Lucasfilm has every frame of film that we made together over all these year,” Ford said.