Harrison Ford Waxes Chest For Global Warming (VIDEO)

NEW YORK — Harrison Ford pulled a Steve Carell for a public service announcement: He gets his chest waxed. The 65-year-old star winces in apparent pain as a strip of hair is yanked from between his pecs for a PSA for Conservation International to raise awareness about the effect of deforestation on global warming.

The actor, who doesn't typically appear in such TV spots, sits on the board of directors of the Washington-based environmental organization.

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Conservation International CEO Peter Seligmann said Ford was game to do the 30-second spot, and approved of the waxing concept.

"I didn't have to talk him into anything," Seligmann said at a news conference Tuesday in Manhattan. "I was there when he filmed it. It really hurt. There's nothing about the expression on his face that was fake."

The classic scene from 2005's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" _ in which Carell screams out "Kelly Clarkson!" during his chest hair removal _ was intentionally hilarious. Ford's message, however, is serious: "Every bit of rain forest that gets ripped out over there, really hurts us over here."

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," co-starring Ford, Shia LaBeouf and Karen Allen, opens nationwide on Thursday.

Comments

[astein1]

Anyone notice Pearl Jam's "Corduroy" in the commercial?

[adamsmith]

There is no Global Warming.....

[ObamaFarmer]

Evidence??? (Note: the rantings of Rush, Dumbya, or any other windbag without a science degree do not constitute evidence.)

[sandiegoconservative]

He should take it a step further and fly the Millenium Falcon out and go pick up Chewbacca and have him waxed.

[shroomingnewman]

Another 'star' preaching the chicken little, doomsday, liberal gospel. yawn

[Strywever]

Your poor children and grandchildren. Let's hope willful ignorance like yours doesn't ruin the lives of everyone else's children, too. Or maybe, somehow, you *are* smarter and better informed than the majority of the world's environmental scientists. Nah. That's not it. You've just chosen to buy into the Republican "we'll get rich no matter what it costs everyone else" scheme.

[panchovilla]

I don't understand. Harrison Ford had to take some CO2-emitting, fossil fuel-consuming means of transportation to go to this place. The wax used was derived as a byproduct in oil refining, a CO2-emitting process. Etc.

[astein1]

And your computer runs on electricity which is generated mostly from the burning of fossil fuels. We don't live in a perfect world, deal with it.

[zaneblue]

Yay Harrison Ford! Global warming awareness needs as much help as it can get!

[mergina]

An ocean of celebrities (and hopefully politicians) are needed to implement immediate change across this land, so that we can lead the world once again to heal our world so it can sustain us as a species. America has been hiding in the shadows of greed for far too long. It is time NOW to act, not tomorrow, not in 10 year, but NOW.

[VARIT00L]

YES YES NOW ... This is the best and only proof there is of Global Warming.. NOW IS THE TIME for all to act and save the world, pass the wax and duct tape.

[Spiriteddona]

forget that waxing-- he looks good without a shirt
wax on groovey, man!
blogging my hillary humor video
link =http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2559101/7672083
wax free! fat free! well, free!
i thank you!

[lboucher]

Harrison Ford is a total wack job if thinks having his chest and nuts waxed means anything to anyone but himself!

[PanFx]

Um, waxing his chest for charity? Are you sure this isn't more couture to add to that swell earring? I think he concocted the whole idea to deflect his desire to be effeminate. Waxing for charity, indeed.

[Pavane]

I love this man. Always have. He's the kind of guy who puts his hair where his mouth is. :)

Or, um, ... something like that.

[pattio66]

yay, now his chest looks just like Calista's...but with a larger cup size

[sandiegoconservative]

HA! Excellent joke. Post of the day!

[Theda]

I like men with hair on their chests! It's sexy. Hairless looks....incomplete and bare.

[OnTheCusp]

Hairless men are wimp-asses and disgusting.

[Mort]

Hair today, gone tomorrow.

[sojtruth]

Yay Harrison - you re such an amazing actor and activist - thank you. Fell in love as a teen watching Star Wars in the 70s, somehow I knew then you would go far. May the force be with you.

Oh and thank you for not having your gorgeous face pulled and poked with toxins so that you look like a rubber zombie (aka Burt Reynolds and Michael Douglas get a clue!)