“I wanted an ambitious movie to be the last one,” Ford said about reprising Indiana Jones. “And I don’t mean that we didn’t make ambitious movies before — they were ambitious in many different ways. But not necessarily as ambitious with the character as I wanted the last one to be.”

“I thought, ‘What the fuck?’ Like I was being attacked by gropers. I look down and there’s three stunt guys there making sure I didn’t fall off the stirrup,” Ford recalled. “They said, ‘Oh, we were just afraid because we thought, you know, and bah bah bah bah.’ And I said, ‘Leave me the fuck alone…Leave me alone, I’m an old man getting off a horse and I want it to look like that!”’

For similar reasons, Ford made the decision to go shirtless during one of the early scenes “Dial of Destiny.” He said, “Waking up in my underwear with the empty glass in my hand was my idea.”

Ford’s age did show itself at times during the making of “Dial of Destiny,” such as when he pulled the subscapularis muscle off his right shoulder during a fight scene with co-star Mads Mikkelsen. The film’s production shut down for two weeks. When it resumed, Ford had to sit out an additional six weeks.

“Well, I’m also known for shutting movies down because I get hurt, which is not something you want to be known for,” Ford said. “But hey, shit happens.”

At nearly 81, Ford isn’t slowing down. He’s been in Atlanta filming “Captain America: New World Order,” his first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Is it fun making a Marvel movie?” he said. “There are tough days and easy days and fun days and all kinds of days. It’s a tough schedule and, yeah, it’s fun. But it’s not a walk in the park. It’s not fun fun. It’s work.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny opens in theaters June 30 from Disney.