10 Movie Stars Who Should Never Promote Anything (Ever)

7. Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford is a notorious curmudgeon, and has been straining the patience of interviewers for decades, as you can see by the above uncomfortably po-faced chat show segment from 1982, where he was promoting Blade Runner.

He€™'s always sat there with the grumpy, put-out countenance of a pensioner who€™'s just been woken up by the postman. And it€™s not specific questions that get his goat (although asking him anything about Star Wars between the years of 1984 and 1999 would likely end up with your hand in a blender): it€'™s the sheer fact of being there that seems to rumple his onion. I don'€™t think anyone in history has hated the interview process more than Harrison Ford, or been worse at hiding it.

Even Robert De Niro, not the most chattiest or effervescent of men, reached a happy compromise with himself whereby he could sit down for ten minutes and talk about filmmaking without looking like he wanted to hang himself. Not Ford. In recent years, he€™s learned to project his sarcastic contempt for the process out into one-liners and skits that trade on his image as the grouchiest interview in Hollywood. He'€™s not mellowed, though... he€™s just making everyone laugh over how much he loathes doing press and answering fanboy questions about Han Solo and Indiana Jones:

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