--- title: Watch Josh Gad Explain Emma Watson's Close Call With a Horse description: The 'Beauty and the Beast' actor recalls an incident involving a misbehaving horse on the set of the movie, starring Watson as Belle. canonical: https://time.com/4702466/josh-gad-emma-watson-horse/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-15T18:07:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:55.740Z og:title: Watch Josh Gad Explain Emma Watson's Close Call With a Horse og:description: Turns out the set for 'Beauty and the Beast' was not entirely danger-free. og:url: https://time.com/4702466/josh-gad-emma-watson-horse/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Josh Gad Explain Emma Watson's Close Call With a Horse twitter:description: Turns out the set for 'Beauty and the Beast' was not entirely danger-free. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Emma Watson Had a Hilarious Close Call With a Horse on the _Beauty and the Beast_ Set > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 15, 2017 6:07 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 15, 2017 6:07 PM UTC It’s hard to escape tense moments on set, even in the case of romantic Disney fairy tale [_Beauty and the Beast_](http://time.com/4689999/beauty-and-the-beast-review/). In an appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s _Tonight Show_, actor Josh Gad—[who plays LeFou](http://time.com/4684745/beauty-and-the-beast-gaston-clip/), the devoted sidekick of Luke Evans’s villainous Gaston—described a particularly action-packed scene involving horsemanship gone awry. “My horse—his name was Buddy, which is a misnomer, because he’s a bastard,” he complained to Fallon. “He literally threw me off his back the first day.” He continued to narrate the moment when his unfriendly relationship with the steed nearly endangered [Emma Watson](http://time.com/4695578/emma-watson-free-books-international-womens-day/) who plays _Belle_. “We had to ride into the village on these horses to sing the song “Belle.” On action, all we had to do was take three steps… My horse—this is not a joke—moonwalked. Walked backwards… then ran through the villagers, as Emma’s like ‘Nooo! Nooo!’ Everyone’s like, ‘No! Hermione, no!'” Luckily, the villagers and Watson came away unscathed, but it doesn’t seem like Gad will be testing his equestrian skills again any time soon. 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