Actor Neal McDonough Talks Rigorous Training for New Bull Riding Video

Actor Neal McDonough is just a few months shy of his sixtieth journey across the solar, however the Hollywood star simply took on probably the most bodily roles of his profession, and he says he busted his ass getting in peak form!

Within the film, “The Final Rodeo” — hitting theaters Could 23 — McDonough performs a retired rodeo legend who’s pressured again onto a bull in a determined try and become profitable for his household.

TMZ Sports activities lately spoke with the director, Jon Avnet, and McDonough, who advised Babcock he went to nice efforts to appear like the true deal.

“I labored actually onerous to verify I used to be in peak efficiency bodily. We practice on horses, we educated on mechanical bulls, I educated my butt off to verify I regarded like an genuine rodeo man, a bull rider,” the main actor mentioned.

In actual fact, there is a scene the place Neal goes shirtless … so there was no hiding behind garments.

“It is simply such a cool second within the movie for me ‘trigger I labored so onerous on sculpting my physique to appear like a real bull rider, and I feel it labored.”

Neal says he left the precise bull driving to the professionals … as a result of getting harm can wreak havoc on a film’s manufacturing schedule.

“For me, it was totally on prime of mechanical bulls the entire time. They would not let me experience on [bulls], for insurance coverage purposes-wise, I wished to love loopy.”

“That is the expertise of directing main males. All of them wish to do their very own stunts, and also you gotta try to defend them and the movie from hurting themselves and the movie from shutting down, and so forth,” Avnet mentioned, including … “This man is unfortunately fearless!”

Even steering away from the bulls, McDonough says he obtained “the snot overwhelmed out” of him … although ultimately, it was all price it for Neal, who with Avnet, not solely made an awesome film, but additionally had a blast making the film.