In The Mummy Returns, Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson appeared in a few sequences together, however The Rock was never present on set.
Despite having shared moments with Dwayne Johnson in The Mummy Returns, Brendan Fraser has never met him.
Fraser revealed that he and The Rock never met when filming the 2001 sequel to The Mummy because Johnson’s character, The Scorpion King, a hybrid of a half-man, half-scorpion beast, was added later using computer generated imagery (CGI).
“I happen to be really good at it, you know why?” said Fraser, 54.
“Because in The Mummy Returns, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was just a piece of tape on a stick.”
(Fun fact: Johnson was also unavailable — due to his wrestling commitments — for the special effects team to have his face photographed in high detail, which probably the infamous Scorpion King sequence in the movie’s final act.)
It happened to Fraser again on the set of 2003’s Looney Tunes: Back in Action, where he shared the screen with Daffy Duck.
However, he explained: “When I did Looney Tunes: Back in Action, there was a Daffy Duck puppeted by Bruce Lanoil and it helped so much for your eyelines.
“You can interact with one another, which made perfect sense, and also I have bragging rights, to having worked with Daffy Duck properly in the flesh.”
Fraser previously admitted that he has always made “diverse choices”, from his breakthrough role in 1997’s George of the Jungle to the current The Whale, which won him Best Actor at Sunday’s (Jan 15) Critics’ Choice Awards.
“I’m always making diverse choices, and, hopefully, that keeps me and an audience interested,” he told Entertainment Weekly last month.
“With a bit of distance, I think they’ve all cumulatively led up to the place I’m in now.”
In that interview, Fraser also explained he sat out on the direct-to-video follow-up George of the Jungle 2, with the main role recast with Christopher Showerman.
He explained: “I think George got a remake, and they built a joke into it that the studio was too cheap to hire me, which wasn’t inaccurate.
“I was approached. I can’t remember what I was doing at the time, but I felt like I wanted to go do The Quiet American‘ instead with Michael Caine, and shoot the first Western film in Vietnam ever, directed by Phillip Noyce, to tell an infinitely American story.”
Source: 8days.sg
