When Robert Redford offered a young Kate Bosworth a supporting role in his
equestrian movie The Horse Whisperer the fledgling actress was flabbergasted.
"Acting was so strangely accidental in my life at that point," she reflected
later. "I was this 14-year-old horseback rider from Connecticut. A bunch of
girls from the barn went to New York to audition, and I went along. Then I was
called back."
