kellybee
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Jamie foxx also used his own horse in Django Unchained. In an interview i forget where he said he thought he'd feel safer on his own but alas, it wasnt a stunt horse used to fire and crowds and explosions lol
...... how he learned to ride and spent hours learning to vault onto a galloping horse .....
Oooohhhh CT I think I know who you are talking about as had a convo with my new vet the other day and he mentioned Snow White!
*runs off to pm CT*
It always makes me wince, especially in westerns when the actors yank on the horses mouths, pulling them round or stopping them. You can see the horse's eyes rolling and the mouths wide open.
I love viggo, and a lot of the actors in lotr practised riding for hours even when they didnt need to. theres a bit on the extended edition where bernard hill and miranda otto were riding...miranda good rider, bernard not so much! They were riding for pleasure as well though Viggo bought a number of the film horses after filming had finished as well as someone said
Sean Bean can ride a bit (he's not bad for an actor). GOT is mostly filmed in northern Ireland so all the "background" horses are Irish halfbred types, but all of the "featured" horses are either Spanish or Friesian supplied by Gerard Naprous The Devil's Horsemen - his daughter Camilla is Horsemaster on this production. My OH makes all the swords and weaponsSean Bean? Game of Thrones? Tell me more - tell me anything! Love it.
Wow Cortez, what a connection. Don't tell us the ending though!
(Everyone ends up dead I expect!)
Ending? What ending? GRRM hasn't even written half of it yet, we'll be lucky if he doesn't reach his natural end before he's done with the books.
I think it's fairly standard for actors to include horse riding on their CV even if their only experience was on a beach donkey when they were little! I know of more than 1 actor who this applies to, who then have to learn pretty fast if it's required!
I used to care for Puff in his final years! He lived at Huntersfield Farm (owned by Pauline Voss and Jo Taylor). Yul Brynner used to pop in on occasions when he was starring in the King and I, and always popped along the front stable block to give grumpy Puff a treat after he had ridden one of the school horses.I used to work at a large yard in Surrey that supplied a lot of horses for film and photographic work . They had a palomino pony who was an occasional stand in for 'Puff the pony ' on the kids programme Magpie …..
Before I nip off for bromide? required to get over the thought of teaching Richard Gere to ride, can I just say that I was under the impression that Davy Jones was indeed a flat jockey before becoming a Monkee ?
I used to care for Puff in his final years! He lived at Huntersfield Farm (owned by Pauline Voss and Jo Taylor). Yul Brynner used to pop in on occasions when he was starring in the King and I, and always popped along the front stable block to give grumpy Puff a treat after he had ridden one of the school horses.