Hollywood bangs spook Irish critters
Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller have been accused of frightening the horses and scaring the birds as they make their latest film in the backwaters of Northern Ireland. Lost City of Z is being shot in the rolling hills around the picturesque village of Ballygally, but local farmers say "bangs, gunfire and explosions" have driven their chickens, cows and bulls "daft".Jason McKillion said his horses had "gone spare" and tried to escape their fields, bulls had charged farmworkers and chickens had flown off in fear as "booms echoed through the glen".The Lost City of Z is about British explorer Percy Fawcett who made several attempts to find an ancient lost city in the Amazon. He disappeared in 1925 in Brazil.The movie is produced by Pitt and stars Charlie Hunnam as Fawcett, with Miller as wife Nina Fawcett and Pattison as friend Henry Costin.McKillion said he supported filming in the area but locals should have been notified that the shoot might be noisy, so animals could be put into barns. ..
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