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He went on: “And the other thing is that if a cow is not feeling particularly confident and you’re standing next to it, it’s happy because it knows where you are.

“But if you move away because you have to get on with the scene and the scene requires you to not be next to the cow anymore the cow will follow you because he wants you to be next to it again, probably by moving sideways and almost certainly onto your foot.

“And cows are incredibly heavy and they have very tiny feet so you know it’s basic physics that that weight through that small area produces an enormous amount of pressure and it turned my foot absolutely black for a few weeks.

“And then I broke my Achilles tendon on the last on the same foot on the last day but that was nothing to do with cows.”