The Mummy star Brendan Fraser was 'choked out' during filming in freak accident
The 1999 movie The Mummy was a remake of the classic 1932 film of the same name, but with an entirely different plot and set of events. Rick (Fraser) played an Indiana Jones-like hero who was looking to save the world from the horrifying undead Egyptian priest, Imhotep. When viewers first met Rick, however, he was a prisoner of war and was due to be hanged. This scene, unfortunately, almost proved fatal for the actor when he got “fully choked out”.
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Fraser recently spoke out in an interview about the “scary” hanging scene, which showed him being saved by Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz).
He said: “There was a hangman’s gallows, and there was a hemp rope tied into a noose that was placed around my neck. The first take, I’m doing my best choking acting.
“[Director] Steve [Sommers] says: ‘Can we go for another one and take up the tension on the rope?’
“I said: ‘All right, one more take.’ Because a noose around your neck’s going to choke you in the arteries, no matter what.” (Via Entertainment Weekly)
