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Harrison Ford explains how he broke his leg on board the Millennium Falcon
Published 10:57 18 Dec 2015 GMT
Updated 11:07 18 Dec 2015 GMT
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Harrison Ford has made us wince with a story about how a hydraulic door on set of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' snapped a couple of bones in his leg.
The Han Solo legend explained: "I was just standing in the doorway talking to JJ Abrams. The camera hadn't been set up but I was wearing my costume ready to go to work.
"We had a big budget this time. In the original film, the door - if there had been a door - would have been closed with a pulley and a stage hand just closing it. Now we had lots of money and technology and so they built a f***ing great hydraulic door which closed at light speed and somebody said, 'Ooh I wonder what this is?' And the door came down and hit me on my left hip because I was turned to my right.
"And then it flung my left leg up and it dislocated my ankle, and as it drove me down to the floor, my legs slapped on the ramp up to the Millennium Falcon and broke both bones in my left leg."
To this day, Harrison doesn't know who pushed the button.
He told The Jonathan Ross Show: "I don't know and I don't want to know."Explore more on these topics:
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