Brendan Fraser Apologizes To the Entire City of San Francisco Over Past Movie Stunt
justjared.comBendan Fraser is making amends with the city of San Francisco. Over the weekend, the 53-year-old actor appeared at the Mill Valley Film Festival for the latest screening of his new movie, The Whale, and to also accept the annual event’s lifetime achievement award.
While speaking to SFGATE on the red carpet, Brendan shared a funny apology to the city after kind of being the cause of a major traffic jam over 25 years ago during George of the Jungle production. Click inside to read more… Brendan explained, “When we were doing George of the Jungle, George goes to rescue a parachutist tangled in the Golden Gate Bridge.
That means Disney put a mannequin hanging by a parachute from the uprights. It brought traffic to a standstill on either side of the bridge.” “My trailer was on the other side in a parking lot.
I just remember watching the Golden Gate Bridge. There’s this dummy parachutist hanging from it. I had the TV on, and Oprah got interrupted because there was a special news report with helicopters saying a parachute is dangling on the bridge,” he recalled. “And I’m going — wait a minute, I’m looking at the helicopters and TV — somebody didn’t pull a permit, somebody’s going to get in trouble with the mayor’s office.
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