Rosie2407
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yeuch... russell crowe?? no thanks. too grumpy for me!
however if he has a grey....... i may be tempted to watch lol!!!
however if he has a grey....... i may be tempted to watch lol!!!
We got asked to provide horses for this but sadly couldn't as our lot had other commitments. However, excitingly I had a call a couple of days ago scouting out horses for he new Speilburg production of War Horse which starts filming in August, so hopefully some of our lot will be in that. And yes, sadly, all they ever want is male extras to ride, which is quite annoying! Friend of mine is doing War Horse and was also involved in Robin Hood for 6 months, he said they ended up using a lot of polo ponies as extras for the battle scenes as they were fine with swords waving round.
Oh my god I would LOVE to be an extra... I would even grow a beard for the part Where do you even find out about stuff like this? x
cool thread!
Picking up on the braveheart horse part - didnt the flighty one have a standing matringale on? I remeber watching it when i was a kid and thought "were they invented then??"
Lol Since then ive oftened wondered how hard it is for them to get tack to be as authentic as possible yet still workable on the horses!
Great thread, really nice to know real people in the film. I wasn't going to go, but might now. I saw the bit about the saddles being made in Walsall.
But - er - isn't Russell Crowe from New Zealand?
.....does anyone remember the opening credits to Black Beauty when it was a serial on TV? He took off to jump a hedge in an eggbut snaffle and landed in a pelham - how clever is that!?!?!?
Oh my god I would LOVE to be an extra... I would even grow a beard for the part Where do you even find out about stuff like this? x
ive oftened wondered how hard it is for them to get tack to be as authentic as possible yet still workable on the horses!
I've just seen Robin Hood (good film!) and I checked to see where it was filmed because the vast majority of the horses in it seemed to be either dishing Iberians or Friesians. Certainly all with legs much thinner than they would actually have been riding in around 1200, before TB's were "invented". To my surprise it was filmed in England and Wales. Has anyone got any idea why they filmed with European horses instead of British ones??????
Iberians were used in battle all over Europe for centuries, they were alos used to improve many breeds in the UK that have since disappeared.oh, and the dishing, thin legged Iberians predate TBs by quite alot. certainly they predate carthorses as riding horses Having a thin legged dishing Iberian I probably took your comments the wrong way but you'd be hard pressed to convince me to have anything else as my horse can do pretty much anything, is as tough as nails and he's pretty
Ditto this! Apparently Iberian mares influenced the TB as well. Andalusians were the "breed of kings" and seen all over Europe.
If mine is anything to go by, they're right show-offs as well so perfect for films