So I think I made Harrison Ford cry 🥲 (a bit) He certainly made me cry, I'll be honest with you

Harrison Ford was paid about $10,000 to play Han Solo. 38 years later, Disney paid him a reported $10 to $20 million to play him again. In between, he was a carpenter. In the 1960s, Columbia Pictures had him under contract as a bit actor. In his first role he played a bellboy. An executive called him in and told him he’d never be a star. So he quit and became a carpenter. He learned it from library books. His first job was a $100,000 recording studio, and he figured it out on the roof as he went. He did that for about 15 years. Then one day he was rebuilding a producer’s office. George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola walked in to hold auditions for Star Wars. Ford said hello and went back to work. Lucas had him read lines with the actors who came in to audition. Then he gave him the part. Star Wars made over $300 million in its first run. Ford’s check was about $10,000. He didn’t complain. He took the next job, and the one after that. Indiana Jones. Blade Runner. The Fugitive. When Lucasfilm came back for The Force Awakens in 2015, the carpenter set the price. The case for the studio: he was a nobody in 1977, and $10,000 was the going rate. The case for Ford: he built the character everyone came back for. Here’s the lesson: your first deal is the price of being unknown. Every deal after that is the price of being proven. In the video, he tells 60 Minutes how a carpenter ended up in Star Wars. Watch him, then decide. Was the $10,000 a bad deal, or the best investment he ever made?

Sadly, Phil Tippett is closing up the old Grayson Street studio and selling off props & memorabilia. This is the exact building where Phil's crew made my life mask (see photo) & we also filmed our STARSHIP TROOPERS toy commercial spoof (IFYKYK). Thank you for some amazing memories, Phil ❤️ And if you live in the Berkeley/Bay Area, stop by the studio. Even if you don't buy anything, I assure you you're walking thru film history. Oh, if the walls of that building could talk! 🎬👍 Click on the link below, and you can at least see some of the photos of what's available: estatesales.org/estate-sales…

One year ago, a childhood dream has come true. Without a ticket I drove spontaneously, to the Indiana Jones premiere in Berlin, met some nice Indy fans first time in reality, saw Harrison Ford right in front of me and got autographs from Mads Mikkelsen and Thomas Kretschmann.