'I was building an exoskeleton for myself daily.'
In case you were wondering where Brendan Fraser has been, it was a long, complicated road for his way back to the spotlight.
In between all of that though, two major events took place in Brendan Fraser's life that essentially derailed his career for over half a decade.1999's The Mummy was a shocking box office success, mixing together Indiana Jones with old-school Hammer horror, banking over $416 million worldwide on an $80 million budget.
"They did the take and the camera was on a spin that goes 180-degrees and it shows the prisoners shouting, and then comes down on me at the end of the noose. I figured, 'I’ll get oxygen and hold my breath,' and I was up on my toes and something went wrong- and the next thing I knew, I was waking up.", Brendan Fraser details the aftermath of doing his own stunts:
All in all, Fraser reckons he spent seven years going in and out of hospital getting his body fixed as much as it possibly could be.
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