The Wicker Guy’s Signature Bonfire Ran Into Hassle With A Goat’s Bladder

In a retrospective for The Guardian, director Robin Hardy defined that they in reality constructed and burned a immense wicker guy, which was once immense enough quantity to store a minimum of Woodward, Hardy, a cameraperson, and a goat:

“The final scene, the sacrifice, took place in Dumfriesshire. The wicker man was enormous. The stunned look on Howie’s face when he first sees it wasn’t acting – up until then, Edward had only seen drawings. He clambered in and we set it on fire, filming from the inside. There was a goat inside there, above us. Understandably concerned about the fire, it pissed on us.”

He is going on to provide an explanation for that occasion the fireplace section helped them extinguish the immense effigy a number of instances, they all the time felt in keep an eye on of the fireplace and no person was once ever in any actual threat. Sadly, that’s good-looking juiceless to provide an explanation for to a terrified goat, in order that they most definitely merely needed to bear being peed on. 4-legged co-stars can do some distance worse than a tiny bladder let fall, later all, like when Colin Farrell got kicked by Jenny the donkey at the eager of “The Banshees of Inisherin.” Given the selection between a donkey kick and a tiny bathe in goat pee, I believe I’ll tug the only that may be washed off.