Brendan Fraser was about to die in ‘The Mummy’: he recounted the incident on set

Brendan Fraser was about to die in ‘The Mummy’: he recounted the incident on set

Brendan Fraser was the biggest heartthrob of the 90s, but it wasn’t just his looks that captivated audiences: his commitment to his characters went further.

For example, to achieve the statuesque physique for “George of the Jungle,” he starved himself so badly that his brain suffered brief memory loss.

Most recently, he said he may have died while filming one of his best-known films, The Mummy.

Brendan Fraser was about to die in the movie “The Mummy”: he told what happened

A fact that many may not know is that the actor usually does his own danger scenes, rather than having a stunt double.

This caused him problems in the long term (like his disdain for his body in ‘The Mummy 3’), but also in the short term.

On February 28, Brendan Fraser told “The Kelly Clarkson Show” that in one of the first scenes of “The Mummy” his life was in danger.

“I accidentally drowned,” he recalls.

As he said, the moment went back to the scene where Rick O’Connell is hanging from a rope at the beginning of the film.

In the first shots, it didn’t look like the actor was suffering as he should have, so director Stephen Sommers asked him to make an effort to make his performance more convincing:

“I was standing on my feet, like this (on tiptoes), with the rope (over my neck), but you can only go so far. Stephen came up to me and said “it doesn’t really look like you’re drowning, can you sell it (make it better)?”

In the next shot, the person holding the rope did it with more intensity:

“I went up on my tiptoes and the guy holding the rope above me pulled a little more and I got stuck on my tiptoes. He had nowhere to go but down, so he pulled and I went down.”

This basically caused him to choke in real life and even pass out.

“The only thing I remember after that is my elbow was in my ear, people were on their side, there was gravel in my teeth and everyone was very quiet.”

That is, the team waited for consciousness to return.

Also at Brendan Fraser’s side was the action coordinator of ‘The Mummy’ (film available on ViX+, ViX’s premium streaming service), who was calling his name to wake him up.

Surprisingly, he was not afraid, on the contrary, when the actor recovered, he congratulated him:

“(He told me) ‘Congratulations, you’re already in the club. The same thing happened with Mel Gibson in ‘Braveheart’.”

The protagonist’s reaction was a simple “thanks, I think?”

The truth is, the anecdote about how Brendan Fraser was going to die in “The Mummy” isn’t exactly new.

In 1999, the interpreter told David Letterman that “technically, I died (…) a doctor told me for 12 or 14 seconds.” Fortunately, this incident did not happen to the major.

Tell us in the comments, did you know how big Brendan Fraser was in ‘The Mummy’?

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