Colin Farrell has opened up about the intense time filming Oliver Stone’s 2004 epic historical drama Alexander .

The actor – in a joint interview with his A Big Bold Beautiful Journey co-star Margot Robbie for Collider — revealed that the Battle of Gaugmela scene was the “hardest sequence” of his career, noting that it was shot over four weeks in the desert of Morocco.

After Margot asked if the sequence involved elephants, Colin then clarified that shooting the Battle of the Hydaspes was “the most dangerous thing” he’s “ever been a part of”.

“They would say ‘action’ and there was eight head of elephant, 200 head of horse and 800 background, 800 foreground, 800 Thai men who would move,” Colin explained.

“Wow, that’s crazy!” Robbie remarked.

He continued: “Eight elephants,

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