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Harrison Ford punched Ryan Gosling in the face and couldn't care less

'As soon as it happened, the director came up to me and said, 'Look at it this way—you just got hit by Indiana Jones''

Clarisse Loughrey
Tuesday 13 December 2016 11:30 EST
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Getting punched in the face by Harrison Ford is a sure honour - like a christening to greatness.

Ryan Gosling is the chosen child of new Hollywood glory, having revealed to GQ that he took one of Ford's fists right to the moneymaker on the set of Blade Runner 2049.

Of course, it was entirely accidental - happening in the midst of shooting a fight scene - but Gosling saw it entirely as a kind of "rite of passage". Ford then reacted in the only way we've come to expect from the actor's legendarily wry sense of humour; proving even a Canadian national treasure like Ryan Gosling could never be immune to his mischief.

"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." Gosling laughed. "I asked him the other day where he got his sense of humor from—was it from his mother or his father? He said, 'Sears'. And he didn't have much time to shop around so he just had to grab one and get out."

And did he apologise? In his own special Harrison Ford way, perhaps. "He came by afterward with this bottle of scotch, and I thought, 'Oh, I knew this was coming.' 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," he joked.

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As Gosling himself added, "As soon as it happened, the director came up to me and said, 'Look at it this way—you just got hit by Indiana Jones'... You know, they say don't meet your heroes, but I would say the addendum to that is '…unless they're Harrison Ford.' 'Cause he's a cool motherf*cker."

Blade Runner 2049 hits UK cinemas 6 October, 2017.

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