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Bendan Fraser is making amends with the city of San Francisco.
Over the weekend, the 53-year-old actor appeared at the Mill Valley Film Festival for the latest screening of his new movie, The Whale, and to also accept the annual event’s lifetime achievement award.
While speaking to SFGATE on the red carpet, Brendan shared a funny apology to the city after kind of being the cause of a major traffic jam over 25 years ago during George of the Jungle production.
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Brendan explained, “When we were doing George of the Jungle, George goes to rescue a parachutist tangled in the Golden Gate Bridge. That means Disney put a mannequin hanging by a parachute from the uprights. It brought traffic to a standstill on either side of the bridge.”
“My trailer was on the other side in a parking lot. I just remember watching the Golden Gate Bridge. There’s this dummy parachutist hanging from it. I had the TV on, and Oprah got interrupted because there was a special news report with helicopters saying a parachute is dangling on the bridge,” he recalled. “And I’m going — wait a minute, I’m looking at the helicopters and TV — somebody didn’t pull a permit, somebody’s going to get in trouble with the mayor’s office. So I can only apologize for that.”
Later on that same evening, he referenced the incident again, saying “that said, my bad. It won’t happen again.”
Just recently, Brendan opened up about what he thought the reason why Tom Cruise‘s The Mummy movie flopped.
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Brendan Fraser is apologizing for causing a major traffic disaster in San Francisco while filming "George of the Jungle" 25 years ago. Fraser, who starred in the 1997 film, recalled filming a scene along the Bay Bridge that caused chaos. He spoke at the Mill Valley Film Festival in California on Thursday and explained that although a dummy was used for the scene, drivers on the bridge believed a real person was in despair. "Disney put a mannequin hanging by a parachute from the uprights.
experiencing a career renaissance thanks to Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, which is allowing both fans (and the actor himself) to go back and consider those films he made back when he was a star the first time around. There’s been a lot of talk about Fraser’s time with The Mummy franchise, but the actor took a recent opportunity in the San Francisco bay area to apologize for something that went wrong while filming George of the Jungle, and in doing so made a brand new error. Fraser recently attended the Mill Valley Film Festival (via SFGate) where The Whale was set to be screened.
Zack Sharf Brendan Fraser’s awards season with “The Whale” continued over the weekend at the Mill Valley Film Festival, where he was on hand for a screening of the film and to accept the annual event’s lifetime achievement award. Speaking to SFGATE on the red carpet (via Entertainment Weekly), Fraser issued a humorous apology to the city of San Francisco due to a traffic jam the “George of the Jungle” production caused over 25 years ago. Mill Valley is about 14 miles north of San Francisco. “When we were doing ‘George of the Jungle,’ George goes to rescue a parachutist tangled in the Golden Gate Bridge,” Fraser said, citing the Golden Gate Bridge instead of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge which was featured in the film. “That means Disney put a mannequin hanging by a parachute from the uprights. It brought traffic to a standstill on either side of the bridge.”
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