Washington, March 2 -- Actor Harrison Ford, who was scheduled as one of the presenters at the 97th Oscars, has backed out of presenting due to his recent shingles diagnosis.

The 82-year-old actor is doing fine and taking rest after the diagnosis. Shingles is a "viral infection that causes a painful rash," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Ford attended the Captain America: Brave New World and the Western drama television series '1923' season two in Los Angeles earlier this month.

On the 1923 red carpet, he shared why he enjoyed working on the Western show: "I love the viscerality of it, I love the physical nature of the storytelling, I love being in natural circumstances, he said. "[It's] a kind of old-fashioned movie-making mostly,...