Brendan Fraser recalled the scene in which he almost died on the set of “The Mummy”: “Everyone was very quiet”

Brendan Fraser returns to the scene after years of absence Hollywood and he did so by recalling some fun moments from his time on the recording set.

Recently, the actor nominated for Oscar as best actor for his role in the film “The whale”visited the program”The Kelly Clarkson Show” and told a somewhat tragicomic anecdote.

During the filming of “The Mummy”Fraser played Rick O’Connell, character hanged in a scene. However, what should have been a simple recreation ended with the actor almost suffocated to death.

“I was on my tiptoes with the rope around my neck and the director Stephane Sommer He came running and said to me: ‘Hey, it doesn’t look like you’re really suffocating’“, he started by telling and added that before that, he had to try a little harder. Alright, well, one more take, he remembered thinking then.

Moments later the set was set and another shot of the scene was taken again, but this time trying to make it look more real.

“The guy holding the rope above me pushed a little higher and I was on my tiptoes,” Fraser continued, but at one point, he was held in the air while being lifted and therefore had no chance of moving.

It was there when he lost consciousness: “My elbow was in my ear, the world was off to the side, there was gravel in my teeth and everyone was very quiet”.

After a few minutes, the actor came to his senses and was surprised by a statement from Sommer that, to this day, he can’t recall without laughing:Congratulations, you are in the club. The same thing happened to Mel Gibson in ‘Brave heart‘”the director told him, adding him to the list of those who fainted during filming.

Years ago, in 1999, he said David Letterman that in this scene “Technically, I’m dead. A doctor told me that for 12 or 14 seconds”.

This episode, however, was not the first of its kind in his career. One of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the ’90s and still at the top of the Best Man charts, he’s used his body to portray characters of all genres throughout his years on camera.

This led him to gain and lose weight for certain roles and even suffer from a brief memory loss after getting too hungry in his attempt to achieve the statuesque physique of “Jungle George”. For this, in addition, he trained eight months.

These accidents are due to Fraser has no stuntmen in his films and, on the contrary, he himself interprets the dangerous scenes on the sets. Although he believed that his body could accompany him in all the preparations and extreme changes that each story demanded of him, after a while he began to feel pain, injuries and even had to undergo surgery to correct the damage that had been done to him. falls and accidents on set.

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