The perils of filmmaking can be as treacherous as the acts which they tend to replicate, and this is perhaps truest of actors. Struggling to find reality in any number of dangerous acts, from sword-fighting to jumping from buildings, perhaps the least glamorous of these risks is trench-foot. As Jeremy Irvine, star of Steven Spielberg's new period film production War-Horse, has just found out.

Irvine was shooting the Oscar-tipped tale of a boy and his horse in the wind and cold of Dartmoor and at an airfield in Surrey (doubling for No Man's Land) for several weeks earlier this year, amid appalling weather conditions. "As soon as your big woollen uniform gets wet, the weight is unbelievable," he told the magazine. "And you'd be running across no-man's-land, right through the mud and dirt. There were sequences where explosions would take place next to me and three or four stuntmen would fly through the air – and then there'd be other scenes where you're just soaking wet. I got trench foot. The soldiers used to get it all the time."

Though this is undoubtedly unfortunate for the young actor, it remains to be seen whether all this strife will shine through in the final product, and result in the Oscar glory sought by the film studio behind the project. It certainly sounds like this level of unintentional realism may be a catalyst for a fresh approach, as Spielberg himself fell into a particularly deep trench built for the purpose of explosives too. All this chaos could definitely be a nod towards a truly visceral filmic experience when the film is released this christmas.

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