Brendan Fraser remembered a terrifying ordeal while working on the set of the 1999 action-adventure flick, "The Mummy." Fraser, 54, starred as American adventurer Rick O'Connell in the Stephen Sommers movie, which spawned multiple sequels and spinoffs. "Was this the one where you almost died?" Kelly Clarkson asked Fraser on her self-titled talk show. "Nearly … well, I was choked out accidentally," he said.
Fraser, who is up for an Oscar for his role in "The Whale," then reenacted a scene in which a rope was tied around his neck after he was captured by locals. "I was standing on my toes like this, with the rope, and you only got so far to go," he explained. "And Steve ran over, and he said, 'Hey, it doesn't really look like you're choking — can you sell it?' And I was like, 'All right, fine.' So I thought, 'One more take, man.' "And 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 — I had nowhere to go but down." Fraser remembered being pulled in multiple directions, "and then the next thing I knew, my elbow was in my ear, the world was sideways.There was gravel in my teeth and everyone was really quiet. "And there was a stunt guy, the coordinator was there, and he was going, ‘Brendan, Brendan wake up.’" Fraser recalled coming back to consciousness. "'Congratulations, you're in the club — the same thing happened to Mel Gibson on ‘Braveheart.’" Fraser joked that he responded, "Thanks, I think?!
I wanna go home!" Fraser appeared in "The Mummy" in 1999. He reprised his role with "The Mummy Returns" in 2001 with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" in 2008.
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