If you feel like you’re the only one having a hard time keeping up with Gen Z slang, think again. Even Hollywood’s Han Solo, also known as Harrison Ford, can’t decipher the language of Generation Z. Recently, during a media appearance with his fellow Shinking co-stars, Harrison Ford was seen confused by one particular term, filling the room with chaos and laughter.
Read on to find out what happened.
Harrison Fords and the strange case of Generation Z slang
It all started with a simple explanation about unplugging for flights. Sherry Cola, Ford’s co-star in Season 3 of Shrinking, was explaining how she likes to unplug from everything while traveling. I used the term “raw harassment” and started a chain reaction.“I’m going to take a flight,” Sherri Cola said on Sirius She tried to explain further, “So, sometimes silence and solitude are necessary, just like sitting on a plane watching nothing, doing nothing, just staring into space…this is called a rough ride.”This left Harrison confused, and he said, “That’s not what ‘raw dog’ means.” Regarding this, the host jokingly asked: “Do you want to explain to us what that actually means?” And it just got messier and more hilarious from there. “They told me a little too late,” Ford said. “I didn’t really know, ‘Why am I going through something?’”He then blurred the line between his reel and his real life, saying: “I’ve outgrown that part of anyone’s life; I have five children.
People – I never talk – what does this mean? Why do you allow me to do this? And then you make fun of me. “It’s because I’m old.”It was as if he was referring to a scene in the first season of “Shrinking” where Ford’s character misuses the term “raw dog.” He believes that “raw harassment” means “talking to someone who doesn’t want to talk to you.”
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Available to stream on Apple TV+, “Shrinking” features Ford as Dr. Paul Rhodes. He plays an experienced therapist facing the challenges of Parkinson’s disease, all the while mentoring his younger colleagues. Other cast members of the show include Jason Segel, Jessica Williams, Luketa Maxwell, Brett Goldstein, Michael Urie, and Ted McGinley.
