A case of shingles has sidelined Harrison Ford, who dropped out as an Oscars presenter. His Star Wars partner in crime, Mark Hamill, replaced him at the podium on March 2, ABC News reported.
No sooner had the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 82-year-old Indiana Jones star as a presenter on February 26 than the veteran actor came down with the painful, rash-inducing illness caused by the same virus that gives kids chickenpox.
Ford’s rep said he had been diagnosed on February 28 and officially dropped out of the Oscars ceremony the next day. He was doing OK and resting, Entertainment Weekly reported.
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Ford was slated to present along with Dave Bautista, Gal Gadot, Andrew Garfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Margaret Qualley, Alba Rohrwacher, Zoe Saldaña, and Rachel Zegler, the Academy said.
Other, previously announced presenters include Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Lily-Rose Depp, Robert Downey Jr., Elle Fanning, Whoopi Goldberg, Selena Gomez, Goldie Hawn, Scarlett Johansson, Bowen Yang, and John Lithgow, among many others.
Ford presented at the Screen Actors Guild awards a wee earlier, famously cracker-bombing his Shrinking co-star Jessica Williams beforehand by crunching in the background as she was delivering a monologue about her acting journey from their table.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News (TNS)
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