From CBS News
Walking with Harrison Ford and his horse, Cooper, you’d think he’s been riding all his life. “Somebody sent me up to a casting guy at Columbia Pictures,” he recalled. “The first question he asked me was, ‘Could you ride a horse?’ I said, ‘Sure, yes, sir.’ He said, ‘Do you speak Spanish?’ I said, ‘Yes, sir.'”
He could do neither. “I certainly couldn’t ride a horse, and I certainly couldn’t speak Spanish,” he said. “But I could lie. And that was the main talent of an actor!”
Riding came when Ford left Hollywood and moved, 40 years ago, to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz asked, “I think I know the answer, but why did you want to get out of L.A.?”
“Because it’s L.A., and it’s a city,” he replied. “And I don’t have to be there for work, so I might as well enjoy a different kind of life.”
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