Hollywood star Harrison Ford (80) has rejected outside help in the descent from the horse during the shooting of his new "Indiana Jones" film. "I thought, 'What the hell?!' As if grabbers were attacking me," Ford told Esquire magazine about a moment on the film set when he had just recorded a riding scene.

"I look down and there are three stuntmen who want to make sure I don't fall out of the hanger." He had rejected the men with clear words, said Ford. "I'm an old man who gets off a horse, and I want it to look like that!"

Last week, Ford, who turns 81 in July, said at the Cannes Film Festival that he had always wanted to develop his aging film character "Indiana Jones" to this age. "I wanted to face my own age in a way."

The fifth part of the film series, "Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Fate", will be released in German cinemas on June 29.