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Having just won for best lead actor at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday, Oscar hopeful Brendan Fraser may be living his best life right now.
But the 54-year-old star of “The Whale” almost didn’t survive filming his 1999 hit “The Mummy.” In fact, on Tuesday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Fraser revealed that he “nearly” died shooting a hanging scene in the action adventure film.
“I was choked out accidentally,” said Fraser, who then stood up to demonstrate the perilous stunt. “I was standing on my toes like this, with the rope [around my neck] … And Steve [Sommers, the director] 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.’ ”
That’s when things really tiptoed into the danger zone for Fraser. “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.
