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Harrison Ford Was Nearly Killed by the Millennium Falcon While Filming This ‘Star Wars’ Film

A hydraulic Millennium Falcon door crushed Ford, breaking his leg and dislocating his ankle before an emergency stop saved him.

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Harrison Ford came dangerously close to making his final film appearance in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. While preparing to shoot a scene aboard the Millennium Falcon one day, Ford was knocked to the ground and crushed beneath the ship’s door, which was described as weighing about the same as a small car. The hydraulic metal door was reportedly operated by another person, who’d apparently pressed the button to make it go down while Ford was standing underneath it. Ford was badly injured and unable to continue working on the movie for two months.

As Ford told Jonathan Ross in December........

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