Jamie Dornan revealed he once kissed a horse on a TV set, despite being highly allergic.
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While appearing on The Graham Norton Show on Friday (15), the actor recalled a hilarious story about the time he kissed a horse on a TV set, even though he is “highly allergic” to the animals.
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Dornan explained that he already had a previous trouble with a horse while filming Marie Antoinette back in 2006. “My character [Count Axel Fersen] pretty much has to spend the whole movie on a horse. And I forgot I hadn’t been around horses for a long time”, he said.
To prepare for the shoot, he did two weeks of horseback riding training on the outskirts of Paris. “So I’m trotting around this place … and in the back, one of the runner’s faces just looked [shocked]”.
“I was itchy, and my whole face had become a giant hive. I had to get EpiPens. Then they almost couldn’t insure me to do the movie”, he said, continuing to explain that he needed to be medicated whenever he was near a horse. “So if you see me on a horse, I’m very heavily medicated”.
Dornan worked with horses again in 2012, in the historical drama New Worlds. “I really liked the horse I had. And I thought, ‘It’s the final day. You know what? I love this horse.’ So I gave her a kiss on the lips”, he said.
“I went, ‘You know what, we’re nearly over. I have half a day left.’ The horse was picture wrapped. So I gave it a kiss. And then my lips absolutely blew up”, explained Dornan, revealing: “And we couldn’t shoot the rest of the day”.