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Harrison Ford Reveals Truth Behind '90s Feud With 'The Devil's Own' Costar Brad Pitt

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Jun. 2 2023, Published 3:30 p.m. ET

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Harrison Ford is attempting to squash his rumored feud with Brad Pitt once and for all — 25 years after things escalated.

During a recent interview, the 80-year-old shared his side of the story regarding an on-set disagreement between the two Hollywood actors while filming the 1997 thriller The Devil's Own.

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"Brad developed the script. Then they offered me the part," Ford explained of Pitt, 59. "I saved my comments about the character and the construction of the thing — I admired Brad."

Ford reiterated: "I admire Brad. I think he’s a wonderful actor. He’s a really decent guy."

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"But we couldn’t agree on a director until we came to Alan Pakula, who I had worked with before [1990’s Presumed Innocent] but Brad had not. Brad had this complicated character, and I wanted a complication on my side so that it wasn’t just a good-and-evil battle. And that’s when I came up with the bad-shooting thing," the Indiana Jones star detailed of when things took a turn for the worse.

During The Devil's Own, Pitt's character, Frankie McGuire, comes to the United States in search of black-market missiles as a member of the Irish Republican Army. He stays with Ford's character, Irish-American NYPD Sergeant Tom O’Meara, and the two became as close as brothers — except O'Meara didnt't know the full story behind McGuire's mission. At some point, O'Meara catches one of his fellow NYPD officers illegally shoot a criminal, forcing him to choose between loyalty and morality.

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“I worked with a writer — but then all the sudden we’re shooting, and we didn’t have a script that Brad and I agreed on," Ford stated regarding his desire for his character to have a dilemma in addition to Pitt's evil side mission.

"Each of us had different ideas about it. I understand why he wanted to stay with his point of view, and I wanted to stay with my point of view—or I was imposing my point of view, and it’s fair to say that that’s what Brad felt. It was complicated. I like the movie very much. Very much," Ford concluded.

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Pitt previously spoke out about the disagreement during a conversation with Newsweek in 1997, calling the script "dogs***" and admitting he tried to walk away from the multi-million dollar film.

The Babylon star later clarified his anger about the production, confessing his "fear set in" too early and noted the cast and crew eventually "got it right."

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Esquire interviewed Ford about his feud with Pitt.

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