Indiana Jones and the Wax Crusade
Indiana Jones star gets his chest waxed for charity to highlight consequences of continued destruction of rainforests
He's been put into the deep freeze by Darth Vader and tortured by the Nazis, but finally Harrison Ford has faced his greatest on-screen torment – getting his chest waxed.
The 65-year-old Star Wars and Indiana Jones star succumbed to the painful beauty treatment to raise awareness about the effect of deforestation on global warming.
Ford is seen wincing in apparent pain as a strip of hair is yanked from his chest in an online video for the campaign group Conservation International.
"Every bit of rainforest that gets ripped out over there, really hurts us over here," he says.
The actor, whose latest film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, had its world premiere at Cannes on Sunday, is a director of Conservation International.
The Washington-based environmental organization's chief executive, Peter Seligmann, said Ford was game to do the 30-second campaign ad.
"I didn't have to talk him into anything," Seligmann said yesterday as he launched the campaign. "I was there when he filmed it. It really hurt. There's nothing about the expression on his face that was fake."
Ford's stunt recalled the scene from the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin in which actor Steve Carell screams out "Kelly Clarkson!" during a chest wax.
The 65-year-old Star Wars and Indiana Jones star succumbed to the painful beauty treatment to raise awareness about the effect of deforestation on global warming.
Ford is seen wincing in apparent pain as a strip of hair is yanked from his chest in an online video for the campaign group Conservation International.
"Every bit of rainforest that gets ripped out over there, really hurts us over here," he says.
The actor, whose latest film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, had its world premiere at Cannes on Sunday, is a director of Conservation International.
The Washington-based environmental organization's chief executive, Peter Seligmann, said Ford was game to do the 30-second campaign ad.
"I didn't have to talk him into anything," Seligmann said yesterday as he launched the campaign. "I was there when he filmed it. It really hurt. There's nothing about the expression on his face that was fake."
Ford's stunt recalled the scene from the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin in which actor Steve Carell screams out "Kelly Clarkson!" during a chest wax.
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