When Harrison Ford yelled at the stunt people on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny comes out later this month. It will be the last time Harrison Ford plays the title character, or so he says; he never know with these things, and if there was any chance of another return you figure Ford would be honest about it.

That’s because Ford is honest about everything. Some might say he’s less “honest” and more “grumpy”; a new Esquire profile contains an anecdote where he sends back eggs at a restaurant for not being runny enough.

The 80-year-old also describes a funny moment from the set when he was filming a scene where Indiana Jones rides a horse through a Manhattan subway. As he finished the scene, Ford suddenly felt hands all over his legs. “I thought, ‘What the fuck?’ Like I was being attacked by gropers. I look down and there’s three stunt guys there making sure I didn’t fall off the stirrup. They said, Oh, we were just afraid because we thought, you know, and bah bah bah bah. And I said, Leave me the fuck alone, I’m an old man.” Essentially, Ford was an old man getting off a horse and “I want it to look like that!”

Harrison Ford: Legendary curmudgeon

Of course, the stunt people likely weren’t just trying to help Ford off his horse because they’re patronizing towards the elderly. As Ford admits, he’s “known for shutting movies down because I get hurt, which is not something you want to be known for.” Dial of Destiny shut down for a couple of weeks after Ford hurt his shoulder practicing a punching scene with Mads Mikkelsen. Judged from this angle, the stunt people were trying to prevent further shutdowns only for People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive 1998 to tell them to fuck off.

But that curmudgeonly spirit has become part of Ford’s persona. Hopefully it makes for a better movie. “I wanted an ambitious movie to be the last one,” Ford said. “And I don’t mean that we didn’t make ambitious movies before—they were ambitious in many different ways. But not necessarily as ambitious with the character as I wanted the last one to be.”

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny comes out on June 30.

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h/t The A.V. Club