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As one of cinema\u2019s great tough guys, whether he\u2019s battling Nazis as Indiana Jones, blasting Stormtroopers as Han Solo, or finding his way to plane crashes as himself, Harrison Ford<\/a> has been in numerous sticky situations and always come out on top, with one of his toughest characters a product of one of his strangest and least successful movies.<\/p>\n In 2020, he starred in The Call of the Wild, an adaptation of Jack London\u2019s novel set in the tundras of Canada at the end of the 19th century, playing John Thornton, a grizzled frontiersman who, despite his age, can more than handle himself in any situation. He\u2019s not the star of the picture, though, which goes to one of his weirdest co-stars ever<\/a>: a computer-generated dog played by a human named Terry Notary, and it\u2019s just as strange as it sounds.<\/p>\n As previously alluded to, The Call of the Wild was a total bomb, wherein critics struggled to get on board with the bizarre CGI, placing it firmly in the \u2018uncanny valley\u2019. The film\u2019s release date of late February 2020, weeks before the Covid-19 pandemic sent the world into lockdown, resulted in a loss of between $50 to $100million for 20th Century Studios, but Ford couldn\u2019t care less. According to an interview with Pipeline Artists<\/a>, the Hollywood icon loved working on the film because it allowed him to be himself.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the edited me,\u201d he said of Thornton, \u201cThat\u2019s a curated collection of the aspects of my personality, my understanding, my conviction. And that\u2019s not always what you\u2019re dealing with in the portrayal of a character, but that\u2019s the fit in this case. Fits like a glove.\u201d<\/p>\n I can\u2019t pretend to know the man personally, but from looking at Ford\u2019s life, I\u2019d say this statement is accurate, for Thornton has a great respect for the natural world, as does his actor. <\/p>\n