Brendan Fraser was knocked out chilly whereas filming a scene for his 1999 movie The Mummy.
The actor, now 54, shared on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Tuesday that he was capturing part of the action-adventure film through which his character, Rick O’Connell, was about to be executed when the incident occurred, stories Page Six.
For the scene, Fraser had a rope tied round his neck and was standing on his toes, however then director Stephen Sommers informed him, “It doesn’t really look like you’re choking. Can you sell it?”
The star described how within the subsequent take, the person controlling the rope pulled it a bit greater and he had “nowhere to go but down”.
“The next thing I knew, my elbow was in my ear, the world was sideways, and there was gravel in my teeth, and everyone was really quiet,” he recalled, including that every one he may hear as he got here again to consciousness was a stunt co-ordinator calling out his identify.
Fraser mentioned the crew member then informed him, “Congratulations, you’re in the club! The same thing happened to Mel Gibson on Braveheart.”
The Whale star first revealed his near-death expertise in 2019, telling Entertainment Weekly on the time that he knew he had not been “fully choked-out,” but it surely was nonetheless “scary”.
Sommers, now 60, then informed the journal that Fraser was to “blame” for the incident.
“He tightens the noose, and then, as we’re about to get the shot, he’s trying to make it look like it’s really strangling him,” the filmmaker claimed. “I guess it cut off his carotid artery, or whatever, and knocked him out.”
Sommers concluded, “He did it to himself.”
Fraser then conceded, “Technically yes, it was my fault, that I was following direction from my director to sell it.”
This article initially appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission
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