Harrison Ford Says He Always Knew Deckard Was a Replicant

For many years, the thriller surrounding Harrison Ford’s character, Rick Deckard, has helped the film change into one of many ’80s largest cult titles. Deckard is a Blade Runner, a future cop who tracks down “replicants,” synthetic people who’re nearly equivalent to precise flesh-and-blood individuals. While Deckard seems to be a actual man so do all the replicants, and thru the years, Blade Runner director Ridley Scott has insisted that whereas he intentionally left Blade Runner ambiguous, he believed Ford’s character was secretly a replicant as nicely. That ambiguity was continued into Blade Runner 2049, the place Ford reprised the function of Deckard with out formally confirming Deckard’s origin a method or one other.

Ford himself has at all times claimed in interviews that he believed Deckard was a human. You can google “Harrison Ford” and “replicant” for examples of it. This has actually been a dialogue and debate that’s been occurring for years, and Ford has at all times caught to his weapons about this: Deckard is not a replicant. But in a new interview with Esquire, Ford lastly reversed himself — and conceded that he knew Deckard was a replicant all this time.

Asked to clarify why Ridley Scott thinks Deckard is a replicant and he disagrees, Ford replied “I always knew I was a replicant, but I just wanted to push back against it.”

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Ford additionally gave a very believable purpose why, if he knew deep down that Deckard wasn’t a actual human being, he continued to insist he was for years and years:

I believe a replicant would need to imagine that they have been human, or at the very least this one did.

So there you’ve gotten it. 40 years later, the talk is just about put to relaxation. I imply, if you wish to interpret the movie with Deckard as a human, you definitely can. But now each the director and the star disagree with you.

Ford will subsequent be seen in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which opens in theaters on June 30. You can watch Ford’s total interview with Esquire beneath.