I Asked Brandon Sklenar What It Was Like Walking Out Of A Burning Building With Harrison Ford, I Can See Why He Compared It To Die Hard & John Wick

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In the Season 2 finale of 1923, there is a ton of jaw-dropping action (the train station and ranch fights) and reveals (Alex’s baby being named John). However, I’d argue that the most badass moment of this whole episode came after Spencer Dutton killed Donald Whitfield and then walked out of his burning house next to Jacob Dutton. So, obviously, I had to ask Brandon Sklenar what it was like to film such an epic moment with Harrison Ford, and he compared it to Die Hard and John Wick.  As the finale aired on the 2025 TV schedule, and I watched this scene specifically for the first time, I couldn’t help but think about some of the best action movies and moments where characters walk away from an explosion or a burning building without looking back at it. It turns out, Sklenar couldn’t either, as he understandably likened this scene to Die Hard and John Wick.

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00:00one of the most badass moments was when you and harrison ford walked out of the burning

00:04house out of whitfield's house i mean i felt exactly how you felt watching it um

00:10i mean yeah it's it's it's that thing it's that shot that you see in so many movies action films

00:18where it's you know die hard walking away from a blown up building it's like it's it's all in

00:23our brains we've all seen it it's you know it's probably in john wick a hundred times

00:27it and that's that's what taylor was doing his version of that for sure um and just a little

00:34kid in me to be able to do that like i've never done that in anything um had like the shot of me

00:39like killing the guys and blowing walking out of a burning building um but to do it next to harrison

00:45ford is pretty cool um and it was really cool and i definitely remember walking out next to him and

00:52and um we actually did a take where we we had we had a bunch of we shoot with like five cameras

01:00i made a bunch of cameras and we just walked towards the cameras you know it's happening

01:04and we keep going and keep going and then we i just kept he kept walking so i just kept walking next to

01:09him and and then we once we passed the cameras he was like run kid run and then we just took off

01:15sprinting um and he just sprinted away from the cameras and it was a really fun moment um because

01:22that guy is just the best he's the best he's just like as cool and as friendly and as sweet as you

01:30could possibly want him to be and it was just a really cool experience

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