Last week, Brendan Fraser attended a screening of his new movie The Whale on the Mill Valley Film Festival (which takes place simply outdoors San Fransisco).
While accepting the Tribute Award after the screening, Fraser took the time to apologize to town of San Fransisco for one thing that occurred 25 years in the past whereas filming a bit of film referred to as George of the Jungle.
During his acceptance speech he mentioned, “I want to make a quick apology. A couple years back I did a film called George of the Jungle. So at one part in George of the Jungle, George is going to rescue a parachutist who has become entangled on the Golden Gate Bridge*.”
He continues, “My trailer was next to the Golden Gate Bridge, [and I was] watching while there was a … parachutist and a mannequin dangling from it. And I wasn’t the only one stopping to watch it. All the traffic on both sides of the bridge was stopped to rubber neck for that because they took it seriously.”
But right here comes my favourite element of the entire story. “I know they took it seriously,” he mentioned, “because I happened to be watching Oprah at the time. They interrupted Oprah to report that a man had become entangled in a parachute on the Golden Gate Bridge.”
But he promised he is discovered the error of his methods, saying, “So, that said — my bad. Won’t happen again.”
You can watch a clip of his speech right here, due to Twitter consumer @daina_scarf:
While accepting the Tribute Award from the Mill Valley Film Festival, Brendan Fraser apologizes to Bay Area crowd for George of the Jungle shoot. #brendanfraser #mvff45 #thewhale #darrenaronofsky
@daina_scarf / Via Twitter: @daina_scarf
And earlier than you go, this is a lil’ GIF from George of the Jungle, lest we neglect.
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