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John Dingwall

Braveheart child star 'burst into tears' as she thought Mel Gibson's death scene was real

A child star of Braveheart has told how she burst into tears when Mel Gibson’s character was hung, drawn and quartered as she thought it was real.

Mhairi Calvey played five-year-old Murran, the younger version of ­Wallace’s lover, and had to be ­consoled by her mum after seeing the scenes.

The actress, now 33, said: “I gave the thistle to the young William ­Wallace at the funeral of his father and his brother.

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