![]() Damon and Thomas alternated in the action with their doubles, Richard Bucher and Mike Watson. When the actors were finally deemed acceptable horsemen, Thornton took three days to shoot the breaking sequences with 20 horses. When searching for a mount for Lucas Black he looked at saddlebreds, walking horses and thoroughbreds, finally selecting a little bay quarter horse which appealed to director Billy Bob Thornton.īilly Bob Thornton is a self-described ‘Brony’, a male fan of My Favorite Pony. ![]() Hendrickson supplied ‘Dollar’, his own chestnut quarter horse gelding to work as Damon’s ‘Redbo’, and cast his grey QH ‘Ghost’ as Henry Thomas’s ‘Junior’. Most had been in hundreds of movies and nothing ruffles them.” “The horses were incredible,” continued Damon. It was all about feeling totally confident and giving the impression we’d lived with horses all our lives. We’d be trotting and Rex would say, ‘Okay, we’ll walk around here in a figure of eight, but I want it to be perfect’, so we’d first do it at a trot and then at a gallop. Drills were also a large part of the training. We’d saddle the horses in the morning, unsaddle them at night and brush them. “We’d ride for eight hours every single day. “We worked with Rusty Hendrickson and his wranglers Rex Peterson and Monty Stuart,” recalled Damon. Damon and Thomas were especially dedicated, riding horses for five weeks. A month before production began the actors spent time in Texas perfecting their riding skills. ![]()
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