Robert Duvall talked about having to give up horseback riding the last time I interviewed him, and  even in his 70s, he was taking it hard. He’d made his working life provide him with lots of peak career Westerns, and he took those paydays to settle in “horse country” — not just in Texas.

Me? Not so much. I’ve ridden occasionally over the years,  and I knew it was an iffy proposition for this trip, doing an hour or two on an arthritic hip cross country in Belize. But it is what it is.

I have always appreciated actors who trained vigorously enough to look “right” in the saddle. It’s harder than it looks. Speaking from experience, Blackadder’s insult about “He rides a horse rather less well than another horse would” is pretty hard to avoid if it’s uncomfortable.