The Mummy star Brendan Fraser has recalled the time his co-star John Hannah suffered a nasty injury on the set of the first film.
The Rick O’Connell actor appeared with fellow cast members from the 1999 classic — Hannah, Oded Fehr, Patricia Velasquez — at a convention in Chicago last week.
On stage, he recalled how one of the animals on set decided to go for Hannah in a pretty sensitive area.
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“Remember the time John got bit in the nipple by a horse?” Fraser asked (via Entertainment Weekly).
Hannah stated that he had a pretty rough time of it in general during production and didn’t feel like he knew what he was doing there, which led to him “smoking a lot of weed at the time”.
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“I got there and I was looking at Brendan being a hero, and Patricia and Rachel [Weisz] being beautiful heroines, heroes in their own right,” he explained.
“Oded, a hero. Arnold [Vosloo]’s kind of a hero in a bad guy sort of way, but you sort of root for them. And I was like, well, what? And Kevin [J O’Connor] is really, really funny and creepy and just brilliantly able to transform into whatever it is. I mean that in a nice way!”
When it came to himself, Race Across the World narrator Hannah said: “Other than getting bitten by horses, stood on by camels, chasing scorpions and snakes around that bloody thing that we were in, the, what do you call, volcano thing? Other than that, I was just there for the free food and wine and weed.”
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Hannah wasn’t the only one who suffered during production of The Mummy, as diarrhea was rife on set.
“Every one of us [had it],” he said. “Honestly, it was extraordinary, inexplicable, unbelievable amounts of shit. I never thought I had so much shit in me.”
Fraser famously had some near-death experience and received some long-lasting injuries while filming The Mummy films, but has stated multiple times that he’d be up for returning.
With a new version in the works, could he actually come back?
The Mummy trilogy is available to stream on NOW/Sky.
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