'Real-Life Hero'

Wilde detailed the close call during the filming of the 2011 sci-fi western

Olivia Wilde has revealed that “real-life hero” Walton Goggins saved her from a gruesome death on the set of Favreau’s 2011 sci-fi Western film Cowboys and Aliens.

Based on Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s graphic novel of the same name, the film starred Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, while Wilde, Goggins, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, and Noah Ringer featured in supporting roles. When stopping by Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Wilde said that she “had a very bad horse accident” during filming and that “Walt Goggins saved my life on that movie.”

In the film, which takes place in 1873, Wilde detailed an action scene where she, Craig, and Ford were “galloping full sprint across the desert with 40 horses behind us and it was like we were leading the charge to fight the aliens.”