While filming The Mummy, things got dicey for The Whale star Brendan Fraser, as he highlighted in a new interview.
Brendan Fraser is making one of the most amazing comebacks in recent Hollywood history. After years of being seen in supporting roles, he is on the Oscar trail with the lead role in Darren Aronofsky’s drama The Whale.
To boost his chances at the Academy Awards, Fraser appears in numerous podcasts and TV shows. One of them was The Kelly Clarkson Show (via Deadline ), where he recalled a dangerous moment while filming his most famous movie The Mummy.
Brendan Fraser on The Mummy shoot: “I got choked by accident “
If you remember, at the beginning of The Mummy, adventurer Rick O’Connell (Fraser) ends up in an Egyptian prison. This is where Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) first sees him – just as he’s about to be hanged.
Brendan Fraser has spoken about this scene before, this time describing his experiences like this:
“I was accidentally suffocated. […] I was standing on my toes with the rope [around my neck] and there’s hardly any room to move. [Director Stephen Sommers] came up to me and said, ‘Hey, it doesn’t look like you’re choking. Can you sell that better? “
The next time I tried it, it got dangerous:
“[…] I stood on my toes and the guy holding the rope above me pulled it a little higher and balanced on his toes and couldn’t go any further except down. He pulled up and I pulled down. And the next thing I remember is […] the world was upside down and I had gravel in my teeth. “
Look at the scene from The Mummy here:
Fraser had apparently lost consciousness, then everything had gone quiet on the set until someone came and blithely declared:
” Congratulations, you’re part of the club now. The same thing happened to Mel Gibson on Braveheart. “
