Disney’s live action Cinderella rides bareback and no bridle

Actress Lily James is best known as the rebellious Lady Rose MacClare in Downtown Abbey.
She has just started filming her latest role in Disney’s Cinderella.
She is looks very much at home on the horse she rides in the movie, bareback and no reins at that.

Disney has not mentioned if the horse she is riding in this photo is, Major the horse in the animated version of the story.

Lily James, is in fact an accomplished rider.

The live action version of Cinderella will hit the big screens in May of 2015. Yes that is almost 2 years from now. Probably lots of special effects going on with this movie that take months to perfect.

Watch the making of Walt Disney’s animated Cinderella

UPDATE

One of my readers had to chime in and point out that Lily James learned how to ride a horse for the movie. That little detail I left out of the article above because she is now is in fact an accomplished rider, which is what I meant in the first place. I am sorry if it sounded different. My reader also pointed out that a body double was used in some scenes but the photo at the top sure does look like her and I have no clue how they would fake that shot unless Photoshop had something to do with it.