Denton County Living Well Magazine Winter 2015 | Page 10

From page 7 really well written with some very intriguing developments. I was very happy.” Still, he’s been mum on the plot details. The rise to the top Success didn’t always come so expectedly for Ford. Surprisingly, he discovered his love of acting almost by chance, according to his profile on Biography.com. As a student studying philosophy and English at Ripon College in Wisconsin, he took a drama class, hoping for an “easy A.” He instead found his passion. “I was terrified to get up in front of people, but I really enjoyed the storytelling part,” Ford said to People Magazine about the drama class. storytelling part. He didn’t finish college, instead pursuing his dream of becoming an actor and moving out to Hollywood in the early 1960s. But, success wasn’t easy and Ford eked out a living as a contract actor. He told the Hollywood Reporter that, at one point, a studio official told him that he’d never make it in the entertainment business. Moving forward, Ford supplemented his income working on Hollywood sets as a carpenter. He worked with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola in both small acting roles and carpentry before his big break depicting Han Solo in the original Star Wars franchise in the late 1970s through Shutterstock I was terrified to get up in front of people, but I really enjoyed the early 1980s. Around the same time, he cemented his place as a Hollywood powerhouse in the Indiana Jones franchise. By the 1980s, Ford was a member of the Hollywood elite. From Star Wars and Indiana Jones Ford starred in several memorable films in the decades to come, including: Witness, Patriot Games, Cl X\