Brendan Fraser says he “nearly” died on ‘The Mummy’ set

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The Mummy.The star of the 1999 remake of the original 1931 action adventure film has described in new detail the incident, which caused him to momentarily pass out after being “choked” accidentally.He told The Kelly Clarkson Show this week when asked about the time when he “almost died” on set in Morocco: “Nearly…well, I was choked out accidentally.”“There’s a hanging sequence,” Fraser continued, rising to his feet off the chat show sofa. “I was standing on my toes like this with the rope and you only got so far to go.

Stephen [Sommers, director] ran over and he said, ‘Hey, it doesn’t really look like your choking. Can you sell it?’”At that point Fraser said he did one more take. “The camera swooped around and I went up on the toes and the guy holding the rope above me, he pulled it up a little higher and I was stuck on my toes and I had nowhere to go but down,” he said,“So he was pulling up and I was going down.

And then the next thing I knew, my elbow was in my ear, the world was sideways and there was gravel in my teeth.”Fraser recounted that everything fell really quiet and the stunt coordinator began trying to wake him up. “Congratulations, you’re in the club – same thing happened to Mel Gibson on Braveheart,” Fraser remembered the coordinator greeting him with once he’d come round.In 2019 Fraser spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the incident, saying that he and his director have contradictory accounts.Fraser recalled of the moments after losing consciousness: “I was like, ‘Hey, you guys think what you need to, but I’m done for the day.'”Sommers, however, said that Fraser was “is totally to blame”.