Lester Holt Remembers Ad-Libbing ‘Fugitive’ Cameo With Harrison Ford

February 12, 2024 @ 4:18 PM

While talking to on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Lester Holt shared tales from his obscure cameo in “The Fugitive,” the 1993 Harrison Ford action-thriller in which he looked like a neighborhood information reporter cooking Ford’s Dr. Richard Kimble, that’s desired for murder.

Remembering exactly how he ad-libbed a line in his quick look, Holt claimed on the daytime talk program Monday that he was “totally freaked out” Ford’s upset, in-character action.

“The director knew someone at my TV station, and he basically said, ‘I want real news people, and I want them to react to what they know and ask the questions,’” Holt discussed. (At the time, Holt was helping a neighborhood information electrical outlet in Chicago, where the motion picture was shooting.)

The reporter claimed that when his minute began collection, he was totally shaken off guard by Ford’s reply, especially considering that the star had not been expected to provide him one.

“We did this scene outside the Hilton Hotel in Chicago. Harrison Ford, you know, ‘The Fugitive’ — he’s just kind of exonerated, they’re leading him out of the hotel, and I remember at one point he comes out and they wanted us to just ad-lib, and I said, ‘Why did you kill your wife?’ And he stops and he turns to me and he goes, ‘I didn’t kill my wife.’ I went, ‘ You weren’t supposed to talk to me, sir.’ I was totally freaked out by it.”

“The Fugitive,” which fixated a male that is wrongfully charged of killing his better half, was created by David Twohy and routed by Andrew Davis.

Somewhere else in the meeting clip, Holt stated various other circumstances he’s cameoed as himself in jobs like “30 Rock,” to name a few.

See the “Kelly Clarkson Show” section in the video clip over.