Actor Neal McDonough Talks Rigorous Training for New Bull Riding Video

Actor Neal McDonough is a couple of months shy of his 60th travel across the solar, however the Hollywood big name simply took on one of the vital bodily roles of his occupation, and he says he busted his ass moving into height form!

In the film, “The Last Rodeo” — hitting theaters May 23 — McDonough performs a retired rodeo legend who’s compelled again onto a bull in a determined try to generate profits for his circle of relatives.

TMZ Sports not too long ago spoke with the director, Jon Avnet, and McDonough, who informed Babcock he went to nice efforts to appear to be the actual deal.

Neal says he left the real bull driving to the pros … as a result of getting harm can wreak havoc on a film’s manufacturing time table.

“For me, it was mostly on top of mechanical bulls the whole time. They wouldn’t let me ride on [bulls], for insurance purposes-wise, I wanted to like crazy.”

“This is the experience of directing leading men. They all want to do their own stunts, and you gotta try and protect them and the film from hurting themselves and the film from shutting down, and so forth,” Avnet mentioned, including … “This guy is sadly fearless!”

Even guidance transparent of the bulls, McDonough says he were given “the snot beaten out” of him … despite the fact that in any case, it was once all value it for Neal, who with Avnet, now not handiest made a really perfect film, but additionally had a blast making the film.