Legendary Alberta stuntman and animal wrangler John Scott says he was always better at faking stunts on a horse for the big screen than doing the real ones at rodeos.

His skills made it to Hollywood movie sets and later helped him teach actors Brad Pitt and Jackie Chan the ways of the saddle on his ranch near Longview in southern Alberta.

“(Chan) had never been on a horse, but after 15 days he looked like he had been on a horse forever,” Scott said of Chan in the 2000 film “Shanghai Noon.”

Pitt was a perfectionist, added Scott, and unsurprisingly looked good riding horses in the 1994 movie “Legends of the Fall.”

In a building on Scott’s sprawling ranch-turned-movie set, where deer run wild and a river flows, a photograph signed by Pitt reads: “I’d say we went through some horses — than

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