10 More Greatest Movie Extra Performances Ever

Animals, like children, are known for being somewhat unpredictable on a film set. And that's something you definitely don't need to tell one of the unfortunate extras pretending to be a soldier during one rather awkward scene in The Last Samurai.

As Tom Cruise's Captain Nathan Algren dismounts his steed in the middle of some nearby troops, said horse suddenly decided it had a problem with one of the extras just trying their best to stay as still as humanly possible.

Rather than throwing a tantrum, dropping his spear, and demanding a word with the director after being kicked by the agitated animal, though, this nut-cracked soldier kept his composure and resisted the urge to fall to his knees in agony.

You can hardly blame the horse for being a bit freaked out by the sight of so many armoured blokes holding weapons around it, can you?

But that doesn't change the fact that in the time it takes to lift your foot off the ground, this extra likely went from being excited about the idea of possibly sharing a frame with the mighty Cruise to cursing the moment they were nudged to the front of their particular unit in the first place.