Harrison Ford Brings SAG-AFTRA to Tears With Emotional Life Achievement Speech
As Woody Harrelson detailed Harrison Ford’s accomplishments from the Actors Awards stage, the famously gruff actor seemed to squirm in his seat, somehow uncomfortable with praise even at the age of 83. The environmentalist, pilot, and cultural icon (“he’s Han Solo,” Harrelson crowed) knew it was coming, though. Ford is the 61st recipient of SAG-AFTRA’s highest honor, its Life Achievement Award. “I’m quite humbled,” Ford said as he took the stage. He acknowledged that most of the other actors at the event were being honored for their work, “while I’m here,” Ford said with a familiar grimace, “to receive a prize for being alive.” “That said, it’s a little weird to get a lifetime achievement award at the half-point of my career,” he continued, to hoots and applause. “It’s a little early, isn’t it? I’m still a working actor.” After acknowledging the struggles he faced as a young actor, including his famous origins as a carpenter, Ford said that he “finally got a part in a wildly successful film”—referring, of course, to the first Star …