Brendan Fraser almost walked past it during filming The Mummy.
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A guest on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the American star said Tuesday he passed out while filming a scene for the 1999 action film. In that sequence, his character Rick O’Connell was about to be executed by hanging when the incident occurred.
As he stood on tiptoe with a rope around his neck, director Stephen Sommers reportedly said to him, “You don’t really look like you’re choking. Can you do better?”
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In the next shot, the man holding the rope pulled harder, and the actor “had nowhere to go but down.” “And suddenly my elbow was in my ear, the world was sideways and there was gravel in my teeth, and everyone was really quiet.”
When he regained consciousness, all he heard was a stunt coordinator calling his name. “Congratulations, welcome to the club! Same thing happened to Mel Gibson in Braveheart,” then the technician threw at him.