Riders know what it means to connect with a particular horse; whether a beloved schoolmaster or an elite show horse, a bond with that special equine is tough to beat.
As it turns out, it’s a feeling that’s not limited to horse people after all. Jonathan Bailey, the British star of the Netflix megahit Bridgerton, was so taken with his four-legged costar that he requested to have him cast as his mount in his next project, the screen adaptation of Wicked.
In a video posted to the official Wicked Tiktok account, Bailey is seen riding Jack, a Friesian horse, and explains, “I went around to see [Wicked director] Jon Chu before we started filming, and I said to him, I said, ‘I think I know who the horse is.’ And he was like, ‘What do you mean?’”