McGregor: 'I bonded with my goat co-star'

Ewan McGregor has revealed that he became very close to the goat who starred with him in his latest film.

The Scottish actor, who appears with George Clooney in The Men Who Stare At Goats, said that he developed a "perfect" connection with his animal co-star.

McGregor told USA Today: "There was a scene when George and I are lost, and we are sleeping in the desert. I am supposed to be awakened when a goat with a little bell walks by. I follow the goat and it leads us to water. It saves our lives. We did the first take and the goat just ran through."

He continued: "But in the second take, the goat looked at me and it stopped perfectly in the frame. It stood there looking at me for almost 30 seconds. I looked at the goat and the goat looked at me, then it was almost as if he nodded and just carried on. It was absolutely perfect."

Clooney recently joked that McGregor should have taken acting lessons from the goat.