Berlin, Sept 08: Action hero Harrison Ford said he would love to play the bad guy in a film but never gets any offers because the evil characters never get the lead role in Hollywood movies. In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine to be published on Monday, the American actor said he would enjoy the challenge of a bad guy role for a change of pace.
"Certainly, but in American films the bad guy is never the central character but instead the counterpart to the hero," said Ford, 61, when asked if he wanted such a role.
"So I never even get offers for roles like that. Although it would definitely be fun because the bad guys can really go all out in their scenes. But as just an ordinary hero, I can't go all out."
Ford also offered further details about the fourth Indiana Jones film he plans to make next year with director Steven Spielberg. The film has been shrouded in secrecy.
"I got the project rolling and now I'm in a waiting mode," he said, adding he planned to be involved in drafting the screenplay. "When the screenplay is finished, I'll read it. And possibly determine that it isn't finished yet," he said.
Ford said there would be no disguising the older age of the Indiana Jones character.

"What concessions?" he said when asked about his advancing age. "Indiana Jones will simply be older and doesn't behave like he did in 1981 when he first appeared on the screen. That's all."

The last film was "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade" in 1989.
Ford has starred in four of the 10 top-grossing movies made -- "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Return of the Jedi."
But his latest films "Hollywood Homicide" and a Russian submarine drama "K-19:The Widowmaker" were box-office disappointments.
Bureau Report