Women around the world might find actor Michael Fassbender easy on the eyes, but it seems a certain species of animal have grown a liking to him as well. During a recent interview, the Steve Jobs star revealed several horses couldn't control their attraction to him while filming the 2011 film, Jane Eyre, causing many of them to get an erection on set.
Just when you thought you've heard every crazy celebrity story out there, another one emerges. The 38-year-old Irish actor stopped by BBC's The Graham Norton Show on Friday (Nov. 6) and opened up about an embarrassing incident that occurred while on the set of Jane Eyre with a horse named Prince.
"Well, he used to get quite aroused whenever I got on his back," Fassbender said on The Graham Norton Show. "So, Dan the horse handler had to get on it and sort of, you know, canter him or give him a little trot so he'd sort of slap off his...retract it back in and then he was good to go."
Fassbender wasn't the only one who noticed the extra attention he was receiving from the horses. His co-star, Mia Wasikowska, who played the title character in the film, also remember how aroused they got around the actor.
Despite running off their erections with their trainer, whenever Fassbender hopped back on the horse, it would get excite all over again. It incidents happened both in rehearsal and on the day of shooting.
"Michael had a very...huge effect on any horse he got on," Wasikowska said in a Movieline interview. "There was a horse on the third day of filming [when] we were shooting the scene where Jane and Rochester meet, and every time Michael hopped on the horse, it got a huge erection.
You can catch Fassbender in Steve Jobs, playing the late Apple co-founder in Danny Boyle's movie, in theaters now. He is also expected to play Magneto in X-Men: Apocalypse, scheduled to hit theaters May 27, 2016.
