An abridged clip of Harrison Ford's reaction to a David Blaine magic trick from 2013 has gone viral after being uploaded to the popular social media video sharing site, TikTok. Blaine's 2013 TV special, Real or Magic, was built around the concept of Blaine visiting celebrities at their homes and doing closeup magic in front of them to show the world how the celebrities react to the impressive tricks. Besides Ford, other celebrities featured in the special included Jamie Foxx, Woody Harrelson, Robert De Niro, Rick Gervais, Bryan Cranston and the late Stephen Hawking. The TikTok video is 59 seconds long, cut down from the original video, which came in a bit under two minutes long.
Blaine and Ford are in the actor's kitchen when the magician asks him to pick out a card from a deck of cards. Ford does so and then Blaine explains that the card has now disappeared from the deck. He asks Ford to pick a piece of fruit out and Ford grabs an orange and Blaine cuts it open and removes a folded-up card from the middle of the orange. Ford unfolds the card and sees that it is his card, the nine of hearts. Ford, now visibly shaken by what he just saw (with a woman also reacting off screen, presumably Ford's wife, Calista Flockhart, talking about the "hocus pocus" that they just saw) then tells Blaine, "Get the fuck out of my house."
Although the clip is nearly eight years old, it gained a new life after being shared on TikTok as viewers around the world saw a little bit of themselves in how Ford reacted to the trick. Like the Daily Dot noted in a tweet...
Other fans believed that Ford's dazed reaction to everything was due to him being high...
Some fans, though, were (jokingly) concerned for Ford's health, with Blaine's trick shocking him so much that they worried it would give Ford a heart attack...
In general, though, the viral Harrison Ford reaction video shows the power of TikTok, as material that was available to everyone for eight years can now suddenly go viral again just by being featured on the popular video sharing app.
Source: Twitter.