Sometimes even Hollywood’s biggest stars need help with the most unglamorous problems. In an interview with NPR’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin podcast, Harrison Ford, 83, revealed that when he needed a replacement toilet seat—a part so rare it couldn’t be found in stores—he turned to none other than Jay Leno, 75, for a solution.
During his podcast appearance, Ford took a call from the late-night host. “[He’s] printing a 3D-printed toilet seat for me,” the Star Wars actor told the host. You see, he’d been stuck with a broken seat in one of his vintage bathrooms. The actor joked that while he could usually handle rugged movie stunts, this particular issue had him stumped.
That’s when he reached out to his longtime friend Leno. He’s got a state-of-the-art garage filled not just with rare cars and cutting-edge tools—the kind that could fix Ford’s exact problem.
“He’s got these 3D printers,” Ford explained. “And I had this toilet seat from a toilet that is not in production anymore. And the toilet seat has discolored in a way that is really unattractive.”
Ford tried for years to find a replacement toilet seat, but couldn’t. Then one day, the brilliant idea to reach out to Leno struck him. “Can I 3D print this?” he wondered, thinking of Leno. “The first time I ever heard about 3D printing was Jay, at Jay’s garage, when he showed me around it, like 20, maybe 15 years ago.”
A weird call to make to a friend, but Leno and his team jumped at the chance. “He embraced the project in a way that I thought I never could have imagined,” Ford added. “People appeared from the depths out of the shadows, and they got involved in it.”
And so, what could’ve been a humiliating hassle into a hilarious Hollywood story. Ford called the fix “a lifesaver,” proving even A-list stars aren’t immune to the same household headaches the layman faces every day.
