{"id":367315,"date":"2025-08-23T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367315\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:23:12","slug":"brendan-fraser-reveals-the-mummy-co-stars-brutal-film-set-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367315\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser reveals The Mummy co-star&#8217;s brutal film set injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">The Rick O&#8217;Connell actor appeared with fellow cast members from the 1999 classic \u2014 Hannah, Oded Fehr, Patricia Velasquez \u2014 at a convention in Chicago last week.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">On stage, he recalled how one of the animals on set decided to go for Hannah in a pretty sensitive area.<\/p>\n<p>What to Read Next<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">&#8220;Remember the time John got bit in the nipple by a horse?&#8221; Fraser asked (via <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/mummy-john-hannah-bit-nipple-horse-brendan-fraser-11796154\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/mummy-john-hannah-bit-nipple-horse-brendan-fraser-11796154\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Entertainment Weekly\" data-node-id=\"9.1.0\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">Hannah stated that he had a pretty rough time of it in general during production and didn&#8217;t feel like he knew what he was doing there, which led to him &#8220;smoking a lot of weed at the time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"patricia velasquez and john hannah from the mummy\" title=\" Patricia Velasquez and John Hannah from The Mummy\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3500\" height=\"2587\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gettyimages-2230701918-68a9964b6b919.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Barry Brecheisen\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"14.0\">Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/a46265799\/best-film-tv-tours-2024\/\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/a46265799\/best-film-tv-tours-2024\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Best film and TV tours for 2025\" data-node-id=\"14.2\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong data-node-id=\"14.2.0\">Best film and TV tours for 2025<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"16\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">&#8220;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,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"18\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">&#8220;Oded, a hero. Arnold [Vosloo]&#8217;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&#8217;Connor] is really, really funny and creepy and just brilliantly able to transform into whatever it is. I mean that in a nice way!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"20\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">When it came to himself, Race Across the World narrator Hannah said: &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"brendan fraser in the mummy\" title=\"Brendan Fraser in The Mummy\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1081\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1497015583-brendan-fraser-the-mummy.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Universal<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"23\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"23.0\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a65815907\/thursday-murder-club-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a65815907\/thursday-murder-club-review\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Thursday Murder Club will delight and frustrate fans\" data-node-id=\"23.0.1\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">The Thursday Murder Club will delight and frustrate fans<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"25\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">Hannah wasn&#8217;t the only one who suffered during production of The Mummy, as diarrhea was rife on set.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"27\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">&#8220;Every one of us [had it],&#8221; he said. &#8220;Honestly, it was extraordinary, inexplicable, unbelievable amounts of shit. I never thought I had so much shit in me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"29\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">Fraser famously had some near-death experience and received some long-lasting injuries while filming The Mummy films, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a41633507\/brendan-fraser-the-mummy-reboot-flop\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a41633507\/brendan-fraser-the-mummy-reboot-flop\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"has stated multiple times\" data-node-id=\"29.3\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">has stated multiple times<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a28877830\/the-mummy-brendan-fraser-return-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a28877830\/the-mummy-brendan-fraser-return-sequel\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"he&#039;d be up for returning\" data-node-id=\"29.5\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">he&#8217;d be up for returning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"31\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a63254242\/the-mummy-2026-reboot\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a63254242\/the-mummy-2026-reboot\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"a new version in the works\" data-node-id=\"31.1\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">a new version in the works<\/a>, could he actually come back?<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"33\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"33.0\">The Mummy trilogy is available to stream on NOW\/Sky.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"36\" class=\"css-jjeyh9 emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"36.0\">Digital Spy&#8217;s new print issue is here! 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