Liam Neeson reveals how extra tried to buy horse in ‘Excalibur’

Hollywood star Liam Neeson has told how a horse-dealing extra in the movie Excalibur tried to buy his mount during a break in filming of the King Arthur movie.

The 28-year-old Ballymena actor was in his debut film role as one of the Knights of the Round Table mounted astride a magnificent white horse in a film which launched the careers of some of the most celebrated actors in the planet.

A new documentary, set to be screened on RTÉ tonight, has its cast and crew spilling inside stories about the making of John Boorman’s classic which put Ireland on the map as a film location.