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Savannah Guthrie might be a pro at interviewing celebrities, but she still gets starstruck.
On the Monday, October 20 episode of the Today show, during a segment with Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen, Guthrie, 53, answered a question about if she ever gets starstruck.
“Yes, a lot. A lot of times I get very giddy, like a school girl,” she said.
The first example that came to mind was “when Harrison Ford was on.” She said of talking to the 83-year-old star, “I mean, I literally, I feel like the whole interview was me trying to flirt with him ‘cause I love him so much. I feel he was receptive.” The show put up a photo of her and Ford from one of his appearances on the show.
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Guthrie said of the Shrinking star, “He was very nice. I look so happy in that picture because he was Han Solo, such a babe. I just love him so much.”
Cohen, 57, joked, “You’re Calista-adjacent,” referencing Ford’s wife Calista Flockhart.
“I mean, right?! I mean he was receptive,” Guthrie said, then added, “I’m joking.”
Cohost Carson Daly chimed it, “You were like that with Richard Gere the other day.”
Guthrie agreed and also named Kevin Costner and Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon as celebrities she got flustered around. “I do like to get my flirt on,” she added.
When Gere, 76, appeared on the Today show on Oct. 16, Gere crashed the couch with the show’s hosts. Cohost Craig Melvin joked, “It’s hard for Savannah to keep her concentration right now.”
Sitting next to Gere, she joked, “Is it getting hot in here?”
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Ford has appeared on the Today show numerous times, and in 2023, Guthrie interviewed him about his Yellowstone prequel series 1923.
Guthrie, of course, has been married to husband Michael Feldman since 2014. Ford and Lockhart have been married since 2010.
Back in 1998, PEOPLE named Ford our Sexiest Man Alive. But he wasn’t exactly psyched about the honor.
“Why this sudden outpouring for geezers?” Ford, then 56, asked PEOPLE. “I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.”
He explained, “I’ve got a completely imbalanced, irregular face and a nose that’s been broken three or four times. One eye is higher than the other. When people photograph me, they have to kind of twist the lights around to make me look like a movie actor.”
Back in July, Ford reflected on how a movie executive tried to change him when he first got to Hollywood. In the 1960s, Ford was a young actor under contract at Columbia Pictures, making just $150 a week for his very first on-screen appearance in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round.
The studio’s head of talent pulled him into a meeting to where he told him he had “no future” in the business unless he made some changes.
“He wanted me to change my name. He thought that Harrison Ford was too pretentious a name for a young man, and then he asked me to get my hair cut like Elvis Presley,” Ford told Variety. “That I didn’t go along with.”
He ultimately lasted a year-and-a-half on that first contract. He broke out with his role as Han Solo in 1977’s Star Wars and has been a Hollywood mainstay ever since.
