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Harrison Ford doesn’t do things without reason — not even get injured, it turns out. For example, when the door of the Millennium Falcon fell on Ford last year, shattering his ankle and making headlines everywhere as fans feared the incident could derail production on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it actually did the opposite.

Co-writer and director J.J. Abrams revealed at the Tribeca Film Festival that it helped him focus on the relationship between Finn and Rey, for the better, reports IGN.

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“When I was on the set of the Millennium Falcon and we started to do work with Rey and Finn, the first time we did it, it didn’t work at all,” Abrams said. “It was much more contentious. I didn’t direct it right. It was set up all wrong, and when Harrison Ford got injured — which was a very scary day — we ended up having a few weeks off, and it was during that time that I really got to look at what we had done and rewrite quite a bit of that relationship. So when we came back to work again, we actually just reshot from the ground up, those scenes. It was an amazingly helpful thing to get these two characters to where they needed to be.”

Sounds like Ford’s misfortune was the galaxy’s gain.