Brendan Fraser remembers a scary incident on the set mummy. The 1999 fan-favorite film Fraser starred American adventurer and treasure hunter Rick O’Connell, who meets librarian Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) and her brother Jonathan (John Hannah) from behind bars in a Cairo prison. During an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Frasier recalls how he “nearly died” filming a dramatic scene where Rick is hanged by prison warden Gad Hassan (Omid Djalili). When the drop does not break Rick’s neck, he leaves him dangling under the platform and being “choked to death”. You can watch the sequence below.
“I accidentally suffocated in the hanging sequence,” Fraser told Clarkson of what went wrong with the stunt. “I was standing on my toes like that, on the rope [around my neck], and you just have to go away. And [director Stephen Sommers] He ran over and said, “Hey, it doesn’t really look like you’re, you know, choking — can you sell it?” And I said, “Okay, okay.” So I thought, ‘Take another one, man.’ “
Fraser continued, “The camera panned, and I came up on my toes, and the guy who was holding the rope above me lifted it up a little bit and I got stuck on my toes. I had nowhere to go but down, and so he was pulling up, and I was coming down. Next thing I knew, My elbow was in my ear, the world was sideways, there was grit in my teeth, and everyone was really quiet.”
After the “choke,” Fraser elicited a coordinator’s reaction: “”Congratulations, you’re in the club.” Same thing happened to Mel Gibson brave heart.'” Frasier added with a laugh, “Thanks, I guess?! I want to go home!”
Fraser starred in three mummy Between 1999 and 2008, after the successful 1999 film The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. In October, Fraser said he was “open” to a fourth mummy movie “If Someone Comes With the Right Vanity,” but the star later revealed that the sexy and kinetic trilogy had taken its toll on his body.
“I messed up a bit after years of doing my own stunts and needed a surgical fix on my spine and hinges. [of the knee]Oscar-nominated Whale said the actor recently The telegraph. By the third film, Fraser said, he was assembling himself “like a wrestler with muscle bar and ice packs, strapping on this Transformer-like exoskeleton just to get through the scene.”
“Those physical displays, whether it was combat or dance or comedy, had an element of self-sacrifice,” Fraser added. “But she wasn’t very smart of me at all.”
mummy The trilogy is currently streaming on Hulu.
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