Harrison Ford started out as a chef but cut “part of finger off” and was fired
He is set to appear in the second season of 'Shrinking'
by Damian Jones · NMEHarrison Ford has revealed that he once worked as a chef before his acting career took off.
Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night (October 9) the Star Wars and Indiana Jones actor said that he worked as a chef “for relatively short periods of time, until they found out about me and fired me”.
“My first job was I cooked at a hospital. I don’t know what I told them but they gave me a knife and a bunch of carrots, and I cut this part of my finger off within minutes,” he explained.
“But the sew-your-finger-back-on department was right down the hall, and right after that was where they fire you for lying about [his cooking skills].”
He also recalled that he once worked as a cook on a yacht.
Ford continued: “I was working on a yacht that was owned by the youngest bank president in Chicago at the time. He had a yacht and a boutonnière and he was a nice guy, but he didn’t know much about cooking.
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“But he was heir to the Swift meatpacking factory, so all I had to do was buy really expensive beef.”
The actor is set to appear in the second season of Shrinking, which is set to drop on Apple+ next Wednesday (October 16).
Reviewing season one in 2023, NME awarded the show two stars and described it as a “sickly sweet psych-sitcom [that] will give you a headache”.
Elsewhere, Ford recently claimed that he acts like “an idiot for money” in the upcoming Marvel movie Captain America: Brave New World.
When asked how he prepared for the role, he replied: “It took not caring. It took being an idiot for money, which I’ve done before.”
It is due to be released in cinemas on February 14, 2025.