10 Actors Who Refused To Use Body Doubles

When deciding on the greatest opening scene in the history of cinema, the sight of Harrison Ford pegging it away from a gigantic rolling boulder in Steven Spielberg's first Indiana Jones' outing always finds itself in and around the conversation. And rightly so.

After all, this heart-stopping sequence didn't just introduce us to the now-legendary figure in the most epic of ways, it also acted as another handy reminder of just how much of a real-life hero the great movie star was... and still is for that matter.

When reliving what went into bringing this iconic set-piece into existence in an essay the director wrote in 2017 for American Cinematographer, Spielberg would reveal that Ford was having none of the body double talk:

“A double would have cheated his head down, so Harrison volunteered to do it himself,”

This wasn't a case of a one and done for the Star Wars superstar, though. Spielberg explained that the shot was executed on ten different occasions in order to get it from every angle needed. Meaning that, as he put it, "Harrison had to race the rock ten times. He won ten times — and beat the odds. He was lucky — and I was an idiot for letting him try it.”