Despite what Harrison Ford has mentioned, spouse Calista Flockhart thinks he’s a fairly good dad after a long time of expertise.
“I think he was a really good father in a lot of ways,” Flockhart, 59, advised The New York Times in a profile printed on Friday, January 26, whereas talking about their son Liam, now 23. “Maybe because he was on Round 2 or Round 3, so he had matured and grown up and, I think, evolved into being a good father. He’s such a good father to his kids now. I love his kids, my stepkids.”
When Ford, 81, and Flockhart first met on the 2002 Golden Globes, he was nonetheless within the midst of a divorce and the Ally McBeal alum had simply adopted Liam.
“Didn’t scare me off,” Ford advised the NYT of assembly Flockhart when she was a new mother. “When I met Liam, he was just beginning to walk, and it just didn’t matter to me. I had four children already, and I can’t count that well, so it didn’t make that much difference.”
Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart‘s first encounter was straight out of a rom-com — albeit one set among the Hollywood A-list. The Star Wars actor and the Ally McBeal alum initially met at the 2002 Golden Globe Awards. Reports circulated at the time that Flockhart got her future husband’s consideration by deliberately spilling a drink […]
The Star Wars actor shares sons Ben, 56, and William, 54, with ex-wife Mary Marquardt, to whom he was married from 1964 to 1979. Ford and the late Melissa Mathison, to whom he was married from 1983 to 2004, welcomed daughter Georgia, 33, and son Malcolm, 36. (Mathison, a screenwriter, died of neuroendocrine most cancers in 2015. She was 65.) He formally adopted Liam in 2010 after he and Flockhart tied the knot.
Though he likes to joke, in a uncommon second of vulnerability final yr, Ford admitted that he didn’t suppose he was the world’s greatest father. “I can tell you this: If I’d been less successful, I’d probably be a better parent,” he advised Esquire in a May 2023 profile. He went on to notice that “the more constant gardener is the better parent,” as he has been “out of town, up my own ass, for most of my life.”
Flockhart, nevertheless, thinks he’s a good dad and a nice companion. “We’ve had to work,” she advised the Times of their almost 14-year marriage. “We’ve had our ups, we’ve had downs like everybody else — mostly ups, which is good — and we just stay together. He’s the person that I want to call when something happens. That knee-jerk thing where I have to call Harrison.”
While Ford continued to star in films all through their 22-year romance, Flockhart selected to give attention to being a mom. Since Brothers & Sisters got here to an finish after 5 seasons in 2011, the actress has largely caught to supporting roles on exhibits like Web Therapy and Supergirl. She mentioned that she was “really content being home” as a full-time mother and staying at residence in all probability helped her marriage to Ford.
“I didn’t have the same dreams at the time, so we weren’t competing with each other,” she defined. “We’re very independent of each other in some ways and probably incredibly codependent on each other in others.”
However, now that her son is all grown up (he graduated from Amherst College final yr), she’s prepared for her comeback. Flockhart stars as Lee Radziwill in showrunner Ryan Murphy‘s extremely anticipated FX mini sequence, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. The eight-episode drama premieres on FX Wednesday, January 31, at 10 p.m. ET.
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