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" Published in the April 2013 issue In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Sean Connery played Harrison Ford&amp;#039;s father, even though at the time Connery was 59 and Ford was 47. When Ford was a battle-worn 56, he sucked faced with the porcelain Anne Heche, who was 29, in Six Days, Seven Nights. In 2008, in his seventh decade, Ford was Indiana Jones for the fourth time, still crashing through the windshields of moving trucks. But Ford is built tough and he looks it still. And a lot of actors do this \u2014 resist playing any part for which gray hair is required until they themselves are too old to chew. (See also: Sabrina, in which Humphrey Bogart, 55, ends up with Audrey Hepburn, 25; Rocky Balboa; Woody Allen.) In the new movie 42 (out today), a by-the-book but lovingly made chronicle of Jackie Robinson&amp;#039;s historic first season as a Major League ballplayer, Ford plays crusty Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers&amp;#039; general manager who signed Robinson. Rickey was 65 when Robinson came to Brooklyn, but he was fat and looked a few years older. Ford turns 71 this year, but he&amp;#039;s sturdy and looks a few years younger. The result: Harrison Ford playing an age-appropriate character at an age when not many actors let the wrinkles show. He speaks with un-Fordian slowness. He&amp;#039;s fat. He lumbers. He mutters like an old guy. He looks like a man who needs his prune juice. And he is great. Because the role does not ask him to inhabit the Ford of old, Ford can inhabit his character. Because of the very fact that he&amp;#039;s getting old, he can transform himself into a character who makes us forget we&amp;#039;re watching Harrison Ford, not easy for an icon who&amp;#039;s been making movies for almost 50 years. Just don&amp;#039;t get used to it. Ford has said that if anyone wants to do a fifth Indy film he&amp;#039;s on board. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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