Harrison Ford Cut Part of His Finger Off While Working as a Cook 'Within Minutes' of Starting His First Job

Harrison Ford recalls some mishaps during his time as a chef, years before his acting career took off.

On Tuesday, Oct. 8, Ford, 82, sat down with Jimmy Kimmel for a wide-ranging conversation to promote his Apple TV+ series Shrinkage on Jimmy Kimmel Live. As the pair talked about cooking, Ford recalled that he worked as a chef “for a relatively short time, until they found out about me and fired me.”

“My first job was cooking at a hospital. I don’t know what I told them, but they gave me a knife and a bunch of carrots, and I cut this part of my finger off in minutes,” he said, showing his left index finger to Kimmel, 56.

“But the toe department was right down the hall, and right after that they fired you for lying [his cooking skills]”, he joked.

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Harrison Ford and Jimmy Kimmel.

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Kimmel also shared that he had cut off parts of his fingertips multiple times while cooking at home, to which Ford joked, “But back then you didn’t take money for cooking? That’s why I’m a criminal and you’re not .”

While Ford said he never worked in a restaurant, he also recalled working as a chef on a yacht in Chicago, for people “way beyond my means at the time.”

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“In Chicago, I worked on a yacht that was owned by the youngest bank president in Chicago at the time. He had a yacht and a boutonnière… and he was a nice guy, but he didn’t know much about cooking,” he said. “But he was the heir to the Swift meatpacking plant, so I just had to buy really expensive beef.”

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Harrison Ford in 1967.

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“Yeah, anyone can do it,” Ford added of the roast beef.

Ford, a Hollywood legend best known for his roles in Star Wars and Indiana Jones series, famously worked a series of odd jobs before making it big in Los Angeles. He even auditioned for the first time to play Star Wars‘ Han Solo only because he was doing carpentry work for Francis Ford Coppola when George Lucas arrived to audition Richard Dreyfuss for the same role.

Shrinkage Season 2 premieres on Apple TV+ on October 16.

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