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Naomi Watts knew all about the angry side of magpies from when she was swooped while horse riding through a forest near Canberra many years ago.
"Obviously there was nesting going and a bunch of magpies just came down and bombed us," she says. "It was kind of terrifying."
Naomi Watts and a magpie co-star in Penguin Bloom meet Sam Bloom on the set (aka Sam's house).
Credit:Cameron Bloom
Her boyfriend of the time knew they should swing their arms around as they rode to scare away the marauding birds and all ended well. But Watts was still unprepared for another run-in with a magpie making Australian film