The Electric Horseman (1979).
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Some actors walk away from a recently wrapped film with a new hairdo or a stolen prop. Viggo Mortensen occasionally leaves with a horse and he’s definitely not the only one. From Sophie Turner’s direwolf to Audrey Hepburn’s deer, here are 11 actors and the lucky animal co-stars who got to go home with them.
1. Sophie Turner
In
Game of Thrones, Sophie Turner’s onscreen affection for Sansa Stark’s pet direwolf wasn’t all acting. “Growing up I always wanted a dog, but my parents never wanted one,” she told CoventryLive in 2013. “We kind of fell in love with my character’s direwolf, Lady, on set.” When Lady’s run on the show ended and Zunni, the Northern Inuit dog that played her, needed a forever home, Turner’s family volunteered theirs.
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