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Brendan Fraser, who played the Mummy, detailed the aftereffects of doing stunts and action scenes for 10 years while filming all three films.
Fraser, 54, who reigned the 1990s as one of cinema's biggest action stars, is presently undergoing a rebirth, affectionately termed "Brenaissance" by fans after giving a superb starring performance in The Whale.
Audiences praised his performance as Rick O'Connell in The Mummy (1999). The actor is now speaking up about the amount of physical effort necessary for the job and how it had a significant toll on his body even after filming was completed.
Fraser discussed his experience in a recent interview with The Telegraph, detailing how he felt compelled to execute his own stunts for The Mummy films in order to justify the large salary he was receiving for the part.
"I got a bit bruised up from performing my own stunts for years and required a surgical repair on the spine and the hinges," he explained. And it took a toll on me. I knew I'd improve, but it took a long time."
"Every morning, I was dressing up like a gladiator with muscle tape and cold packs, strapping on this Transformer-like armour simply to get through the scene," he explained.
The immense toll on his health necessitated many medical operations to get him back in shape, including a partial knee replacement, a spine treatment known as a lumbar laminectomy, and voice cord surgery.
All of these treatments were carried out over the course of several years while he was shooting.
