Oliver North’s new film on Alexander the Great comes out soon. Riding with Alexander explains Oxford classics professor Robin Lane Fox’s peculiar request of Oliver North, in return for his expertise:
Seven hours later, we parted, Oliver having put no end of questions about the outlines of the script, then forming in his mind, and me having specified my non-negotiable reward for this advice: a place on horseback in the front ten of every major cavalry charge by Alexander’s cavalrymen to be filmed by Oliver on location. I have ridden for years, including in horse-races, but even Oliver was surprised. To his credit, he agreed, and we lived up to the deal, as filmgoers can now see.