Actors rave about their horse co-stars

Actors such as Liam Neeson and Russell Crowe reminisce about the quality time spent and bonds formed with their animal co-stars

The horse that Liam Neeson worked with on The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (left) remembered the actor from a previous project. Actor Jeff Daniels and his mighty Godless co-star Apollo.
Actor Jeff Daniels and his mighty Godless co-star Apollo. PHOTO: URSULA COYOTE
The horse that Liam Neeson worked with on The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (left) remembered the actor from a previous project. Actor Jeff Daniels and his mighty Godless co-star Apollo.
The horse that Liam Neeson worked with on The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (above) remembered the actor from a previous project. PHOTO: NETFLIX
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LOS ANGELES • If you met Liam Neeson, would you ever forget him? No? Neither did this horse.

While at the New York Film Festival recently, he marvelled at how the animal, who pulls his character's wagon in the upcoming western by the Coen brothers, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, remembered the actor from a previous project. The horse pawed the ground upon seeing Neeson again. He whinnied.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 29, 2018, with the headline Actors rave about their horse co-stars. Subscribe