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During the promotion of his most recent work -the film “The whale”– the actor brendan fraser He has taken the opportunity to remember experiences in his previous films, and a large number of fans have questioned him about certain scenes. Now, he announced that during the filming of the successful film “The mummy” in 1999, he risked suffocation.
Fraser was a guest on the television show Kelly Clarkson and, with the good humor that characterizes him, he spoke of that dangerous experience: “I was standing on the tips of my feet, with a rope around my neck and you can’t move. Steve (Summers, the film’s director) ran up to me and said, ‘Hey, you don’t actually look like you’re suffocating. Can you “sell” it? Very good. So I thought, ‘One more take.’ The camera panned and I went on my toes, and the guy holding the rope above me pulled on it some more. He was stuck on my toes. He could only go down, so he was going up and I was going down.”
The worst came later, when Brendan collapsed: “By then my elbow was in my ear, the world was on its side, I had gravel in my teeth and everyone was very quiet. There was a stuntman in the place and he was like ‘Brendan! Brendan! Wake up!’ He told me: ‘Congratulations, you’re in the club. The same thing happened to Mel Gibson in ‘Braveheart’“; luckily Fraser was unharmed and the next day he returned to work. It will be on March 12 when the actor attends the awards ceremony oscarsince he is nominated by “The whale”competing with Bill Nighy, Colin Farrel, Paul Mescal and Austin Butler.
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