Brendan Fraser has taken many moments to look back on good his early career, as well as share some The Mummy pride at award ceremonies, but recently Fraser detailed the on-set moment in which he fainted while shooting the hanging scene for the 1999 film.
he was actually choked out while trying to bring some realism to the dramatic public execution scene.
“I was standing on my toes like this, with the rope [around my neck], and you only got so far to go,” Fraser tells Clarkson. “And [director] Stephen [Sommers] ran over, and he said, ‘Hey, it doesn’t really look like you’re, you know, choking—can you sell it?’ And I was like, ‘All right, fine.’ So I thought, ‘One more take, man.’”He continues, “I was stuck on my toes—I had nowhere to go but down.
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