Hurt got to know each other over the years. "But I knew his work, and his work is fantastic. To have the opportunity to step into the shoes of a character that he helped to create was not a barrier to me.

The "Indiana Jones" and "Star Wars" icon admits taking over the Thaddeus Ross role was "a delicate thing to think about."

Indeed Ford, who famously worked as a carpenter before embarking on a decades-long career that saw him appear in massively successful films like "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones," "The Fugitive" and "Bladerunner," had much more modest hopes for his acting career when he was young.