Cowboys & Aliens wasn’t a superhero film, but it surely turns on the market was a real-life superhero on set.
“Walt Goggins saved my life on that film,” mentioned Olivia Wilde of the 2011 sci-fi western. “I had a really unhealthy horse accident, and he saved me. It was me and Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford galloping, like, full dash throughout the desert with 40 horses behind us. And it was like we have been main the cost to struggle the aliens or no matter.”
Wilde, talking on Armchair Professional podcast, continued with the story.
“So positive sufficient, this horse jumps and bucks me off within the craziest manner. I fell off. I hit my head and my again, and I used to be laying [on the ground] however, sadly, I used to be on the opposite facet of this sort of lip of grime, that means that each one horses behind couldn’t see me. And there was additionally a variety of mud. I bear in mind having my ear to the bottom and I might hear it and it seemed like thunder, like they have been coming in the direction of me. And I had the thought — it sounds so dramatic — however I assumed, ‘It’ll be fast. It’ll be like, pulverized applesauce. Out.’”
Then, out of nowhere, got here Goggins.
“Walt Goggins had seen [me] forward of him and in a cut up second thought to show his horse sideways proper in entrance of me and let everybody sort of bash into him. And he’s an awesome rider, so he was in a position to deal with that. Folks cut up the 2 sides round us pondering he had simply gone insane, however he was defending my physique on the bottom. And so I owe him my life. It’s loopy. He’s a real-life hero.”
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