“So I decided to go down on my own and then, incredibly, the horse lifted its front legs, and he missed me, and he could have crushed me in seconds. And at a certain point you have to make a decision: Do I go down and hit the deck on my own? Or do I wait for the hoof to split my face in two?” the actor says. And I was still holding on to the mane like an idiot, trying to get back up. “It all just sort of happened, and I saw everything very clearly, which was the horse’s very muscular front legs moving at a very dangerous speed.
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RELATED: LONE RANGER FASHION GETS AN UPGRADE IN NEW FLICK “And Scout decided to jump over a couple of obstacles - and yeah, user error, I don’t know what happened, but it happened very fast and very slow.”ĭepp, 50, says his near-death experience wasn’t as scary as one might think. And we changed paths in order to get closer to the camera car, and the horses were still running real hot they wanted to run,” he says. “We’d been running the horses pretty hot that day and went down a couple of paths, and that all worked out fine. There, the actors learned riding, saddling, shooting and roping.ĭepp jokingly says that his horse, named Scout, had it in for him on the day of the accident. RELATED: LOU LEMENICK’S REVIEW: GROAN RANGERĭepp has ridden horses in movies before, and the entire principal cast of “The Lone Ranger” got a refresher course in Western techniques at a pre-shoot cowboy boot camp in Albuquerque, NM. It’s really hard to make these movies because they are very dangerous.” I have such respect for the actors and stuntmen and directors.
“Simple things in Westerns are incredibly dangerous. “That was one of the scariest moments ever,” director Gore Verbinski tells The Post. “I would say that the positive thing is my coccyx didn’t take it,” the always-cool actor joked immediately following the accident. He walked away with just a bad bruise on his stomach. Johnny Depp barely escaped serious injury while filming “The Lone Ranger,” when he fell off a galloping horse and was dragged through the desert and nearly trampled. This probably hurt more than when he saw the box-office returns for “The Tourist.”