Olivia Wilde reveals A-list co-star ‘saved my life’ after a horse stunt went wrong

Olivia Wilde suffered a ‘very bad horse accident’ on the set of a film (Picture: Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard) Olivia Wilde has revealed how she was nearly stampeded to death by horses on the set of a Western film. The 42-year-old actor starred in Jon Favreau’s 2011 movie Cowboys & Aliens alongside the likes of Daniel Craig , Harrison Ford , Sam Rockwell and Paul Dano. But it was her fellow co-star Walton Goggins who reportedly ‘saved her life’ after a near-fatal accident. Speaking on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast , Wilde explained: ‘Walt Goggins saved my life on that movie. ‘He did. I had a very bad horse accident, and he saved me. It was me and Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford galloping, like, full sprint across the desert with 40 horses behind us. And it was like we were leading the charge to fight the aliens or whatever.’ However, after her horse jumped over a large ditch during a take, the actor was thrown off the horse. Wilde starred in the 2011 film Cowboys & Aliens alongside Daniel Craig (Picture: Universal/Everett/Shutterstock) Walton Goggins, who also starred in the film, ‘saved’ Wilde’s life (Picture: Universal/Everett/Shutterstock) ‘So sure enough, this horse jumps and bucks me off in the craziest way,’ she said. ‘I fell off. I hit my head and my back, and I was laying [on the ground] but, unfortunately, I was on the other side of this kind of lip of dirt, meaning that all horses behind couldn’t see me. And there was also a lot of dust. ‘I remember having my ear to the ground and I could hear it and it sounded like thunder, like they were coming towards me. ‘And I had the thought — it sounds so dramatic — but I thought, it’ll be quick. It’ll be like, pulverized applesauce. Out.’ She continued: ‘Walt Goggins had seen [me] ahead of him and in a split second thought to turn his horse sideways right in front of me and let everyone kind of bash into him. ‘And he’s a great rider, so he was able to handle that. People split the two sides around us thinking he had just gone insane, but he was protecting my body on the ground. And so I owe him my life. It’s crazy. He’s a real-life hero.’ Wilde, pictured alongside Craig and Harrison Ford in the film, said how she was thrown off of the horse (Picture: Universal/Everett/Shutterstock) The 42-year-old said she ‘owes’ Walton her life (Picture: AFP via Getty Images) Cowboys & Aliens opened in July 2011 and was largely a box office disappointment, despite receiving positive reviews. Blending together the traditional Western genre with sci-fi, the film set in 1870s America follows a group of rival outlaws, wealthy cattlemen, and Apache warriors who must unite to fight off gold-mining aliens that have attacked their town and abducted its people. Earlier this month, Wilde made headlines after praising her ex Harry Styles for handling his ‘impossib