In The Mummy, Brendan Fraser played the main character, Rick O’Connell
More than 20 years before starring The whale (2022) and be nominated for the Oscar 2023 in Best Actor by the movie, Brendan Fraser became a worldwide success with The Mummy (1999), action-adventure film in which he played Rick O’Connell. However, the production had a bizarre backstage event: the artist “almost” died during filming.
During an interview with The Kelly ClarksonShowthe actor recalled that frightening moment on the set of The Mummy. “Almost [morri]…well, I was accidentally suffocated,” he stated. “There’s a hanging scene in the movie.”
“I was on tiptoe like that with the rope and you could only go so far,” he continued. Fraser. “Stephen [Sommers, diretor] ran over and said, ‘Hey, it doesn’t look like you’re being hanged. Can you sell this?'”
However, it was after that that the situation drastically deteriorated for the artist: “The camera spun and I went up on tiptoe. The guy holding the rope above me pulled a little higher and I got stuck on tiptoe, and had nowhere to go but down.”
Then he would pull up and I would go down. And then the next thing I knew, my elbow was in my ear, the world was on its side and there was gravel in my teeth.
Source: Rollingstone
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