“I’m saying this horse knew me,” Neeson said, according to Page Six.
The horse, King Charles, frequently bit crew members, but was personally picked by Taylor after she rode it at her parents’ country club.
Neeson plays a travelling musician in the Coen brothers film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and told a New York film festival event the horse who pulled his wagon fondly remembered him as an old workmate.
In 2009, he explained to the Guardian: “I met him and we got along well and I wanted to keep seeing that horse, so I bought him.