Harrison Ford is Back on Two Feet (Almost) with Prosthetic Peg Leg after Breaking Foot on Set while Filming Star Wars
By AP, 30 June 2014
Harrison Ford has been seen hobbling through London in a heavy-duty leg brace as he races his way back to fitness to continue filming Star Wars: Episode VII.
The veteran actor was hospitalised last month after breaking his foot during one of the first shoots of the latest episode.
Producers rushed to reshuffle the entire filming schedule as the 71-year-old was forced into a wheelchair.
Fighting back: Harrison Ford, 71, refused helping hands from friends as he hobbled down a flight of stairs using a prosthetic peg leg for support after breaking his foot on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII
Defiant: Despite fears the veteran actor would struggle to recover, he is clearly determined to get back on set
But it seems the action man is determined to fight back.
Inching his way down a flight of stairs outside London's exclusive 34 restaurant in Mayfair last night, he used a prosthetic peg leg for support, refusing any assistance from friends.
And it seems his wife Calista Flockhart seemed more than happy to leave him to his own devices, as she was spotted sight-seeing in Paris.
Reprising his role as the inter-galactic pilot Han Solo, his leg was crushed by his character's spaceship, the Millennium Falcon, which fell on his leg.
He was airlifted from Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, which specialises in fractures.
Accident: Ford also pulled muscles and damaged a disc after the Millennium Falcon, his character's ship, fell on him
Speaking shortly before his accident, the American star described himself as a ‘battered old Ford’ and said he prefers to do his own action stunts.
He said: ‘I keep on coming back for more. If it doesn’t look real on the screen then an audience does not believe what it sees.’
The actor, who has also pulled muscles and damaged a disc in his back during the Indiana Jones films, added: ‘Although I do my own running, jumping and falling, I always try to keep myself from being hurt. So I know what will work and what won’t.’