Zawe Ashton revealed that a horse farted during one of her scenes in "Mr. Malcolm's List."- She said the horse farted loudly for a long time next to her costar Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
"Mr. Malcolm's List" star Zawe Ashton said that a horse ruined one of her scenes in the new movie by farting loudly.
Ashton stars in the period romantic comedy as Julia Thistlewaite, a snobbish woman who requests help from an old friend (Freida Pinto) to trick a man (Sope Dirisu) who once hurt her feelings. In one scene, Julia's friend Selina Dalton (Pinto) attempts to woo Mr. Malcolm (Dirisu) at a horse auction.
Ashton told Insider that one of the takes for the scene was "sabotaged" by a horse farting in close proximity to her costar, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who plays Julia's cousin.
"We did have one scene that was going extremely well," Ashton recalled. "And then one of the horses sabotaged the scene by doing a very loud fart. It was so hysterical. I've never heard anything that loud coming out of an animal and it was prolonged."
She added: "We couldn't keep it together. So if there's one thing you have to do more than anything when working with horses is be prepared for their digestive systems to get in the way of the scene."
Ashton also said that the incident was even more unfortunate because Jackson-Cohen has a fear of horses.
"He was very scared, a lot of the time," Ashton said. "We actually worked it into the script quite a bit when he's talking about his fear of horses and Julia's kind of telling him to shut up."
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"In the audition when they asked me, 'Have you ridden a horse before?' I was like, 'Yeah, I'm amazing. I've ridden so many horses. I'd be perfect for this role,'" Dynevor said.
"Mr. Malcolm's List" is in theaters now.