Mark Hammil does an excellent Harrison Ford impression, so there's a possibility that the "kid" is part of the impression, rather than a direct quote. Also, I was doing the quote from memory, so I might have remembered it wrong.

But I also like the thought that Harrison Ford calls everyone kid.

Please remember that Star Wars was released in 1977. It absolutely blew people's minds because they were doing something that nobody had ever seen before, to an audience that was just perfectly ripe for receiving it. It would have been impossible for them to cover every single base, when they were doing such ground breaking things, you kind of have to see it in the light of that, like you would watch Metropolis by Fritz Lang, or Nosferatu.

You can't nitpick it the same way you can Marvel slop in 2026, there was so many ground breaking things, most of all it was a genuinely alien experience because we hadn't really seen such a well designed intergalactic society and world building before, that all the minor stuff is just afterthoughts to what the greater story was.

It's like finding flaws in a renaissance painting, or the Iliad, or classical opera- which is a fitting comparison considering SW is the definition of space opera, down to containing one of the most genuinely masterful, memorable, and well crafted scores of all time.

Rise of Skywalker gave everyone what they wanted.

If you watched it wanting a fun action adventure movie, it gave you what to wanted.

If you wanted a movie you could nitpick and complain about on the internet, it gave you what you wanted.

Ford struggled with anxiety and imposter syndrome early on, and developed his tough, flippant exterior around that as a coping mechanism. So there are a lot of stories about him saying callous, tough guy things. But he's quite a softie who really loves the art of acting, so I don't think he's really dismissing everything and everyone outright.

I think Ford's attitude is similar to Guinness' attitude - it's not that he hates Star Wars, it's that he hates that it's completely overshadowed his other work and nobody ever talks to him about any other part of his career.

Ford's attitude about the films has always just pissed me off. If you don't like something, which you clearly don't, why you do it in the first place?

I mean I don't love my job but I keep showing up for the paycheck.

Christopher Eccleston famously hated Dr who

its my understanding that he hated Russell T Davis because Davis was abusive to the staff.

why you do it in the first place?

it paid more than carpentry. No, really.

MCU is genuinely mass market slop though. I cannot believe people watch that drivel, and I judge people who do. That's all I have to say on the matter, good day, Sir, I SAID GOOD DAY.