Every opportunity that arises to go for Harrison Ford, we usually
find ourselves saying “he probably wont sign there.” Don’t get us wrong, Harrison does sign but he’s
about what you’d expect – a bit of a grump.
That being said, his premiere’s are usually the last place he signs so
we didn’t really expect much heading to the “42” premiere on Tuesday. Still for a legend like Harrison Ford, we’ve
got to try.
Arrivals for the premiere started pretty slowly, with a few
celebrities who weren’t in the movie showing up; Kim Raver, Alyssa Milano and
Naya Rivera among them. Nobody was
prepared to see any of these ladies so no autographs were signed from them at
this moment. After about twenty minutes
into the arrivals, we finally seeing cast members from the film show up
We were happy to see Alan Tudyk of “Firefly” fame show up
and pick up a pen, mainly because we’re huge “Wreck it Ralph” fans. Alan played King Candy
in that film… Great voice artist and actor!
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| Alan Tudyk signed 11x14 |
Christopher Meloni from Law and Order SVU is also a cast
member in 42 and ran right over to sign a few items.
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| Christopher Meloni signing our 11x14 |
Other cast members including Lucas Black, TR Knight, Andrew
Holland, John C. McGinley arrived but weren’t
interested in signing at that time. Ryan Merriman did come over and sign a handful of items.
Finally the moment arrived that Mr. Indiana Jones himself
showed up. Arm and arm with Calistia
Flockhart, Harrison immediately took to the red carpet for press
photography. After a moment, he turned
to acknowledge the crowd screaming for him, pointed to his watch, and said he
was late. About twenty seconds later, he
changed his mind and actually came over and began signing!
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| Ford signing our 11x14 |
In all the years we’ve seen Harrison Ford, at charity
events, premieres and screenings, we’ve never him walk over to a crowd this
size and begin signing. The sea of never
ending photos began as Harrison did his best to sign one each for as many people
as he could get to. If you tried for multiples
and Harrison caught you, even at 70 years old he’d remember your face. Still, we were able to have a very
successful night with Harrison, getting multiple items signed!
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| 12x18 |
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| 11x14 |
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| 11x14 |
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| 12x18 signed by Harrison Ford (Ed ran out of items and had this on him!) and Chadwick Boseman, who signed later during press for the movie. |
Finally, Chadwick Boseman showed up – a guy who has 19 IMDB
credits, mostly all television guest star stints. Chadwick could not be bothered to sign for
the group and got booed. We’re used to
newly crowned celebrities starting off very nice and turning to the “dark side”
rather quickly, but this guy seems sour from the get go… Just not interested in
signing autographs.
Even with as little as we got signed, any night that we walk
away with multiple Harrison Ford’s is a great night for us! Until next time….
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| Inspector Jesse |
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