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79 S AG - A F T R A S PEC I A L IS S U E 2 0 26 S A G A F T R A .O R G Film Star to Television Acclaim With the majority of his professional life spent collaborating with writers on screenplay revisions, Ford knows good writing. Aer reading the pilot script for the Apple TV comedy series Shrinking (2023–), he immediately texted the show's co-creator Bill Lawrence, telling him, "I'm in." It was the best script he'd ever read, he told co-creator Brett Goldstein. The dialogue, the character and the "combination of pathos and comedy" are what drew Ford to the project. During production, he was able to contribute his savvy for improv, resulting in some of the show's funniest moments, his performance ultimately earning him two Actor Award nominations and his first Emmy nomination. Shrinking debuted less than a month aer the first episode of 1923, Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone prequel starring Ford as the patriarch of the Dutton family. At 80 years old, he was leading two streaming series in entirely different genres. Five months later, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, with Ford portraying both the 1940s Indiana Jones and the 1969 Jones thanks to de-aging technology, hit the big screen. Ford's destiny, it seems, is to conquer every decade and medium. Saving the World Off-screen, Ford has been busy. As a pilot, he has participated in search and rescue missions, saving stranded hikers on more than one occasion. Ford serves on the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Actors' Council and is a generous supporter of the Foundation and his fellow performers; he received the Foundation's Artists Inspiration Award in 2018 for his extensive philanthropy, including decades-long environmental advocacy with Conservation International. In 1995, he testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of the Dalai Lama and an independent Tibet. He has delivered remarks during the United Nations Climate Action Summit and has spoken with then-President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono about preserving Indonesia's oceans and forests. Last year, he was awarded the E.O. Wilson Legacy Award for Transformative Conservation Leadership. He also serves as a general trustee on the Governing Board of the Archeological Institute of America, assisting Below, now considered a sci-fi classic, Blade Runner (1982) initially underperformed at the box office, but grew in popularity with the release of Ridley Scott's director's cut, which removed the voiceover that Ford didn't favor. WARNER BROS./PHOTOFEST