There is a second throughout “George of the Jungle” the place George (Brendan Fraser) fearlessly climbs the towering construction of the Bay Bridge to rescue a trapped parachuter. However as reported by Entertainment Weekly, the actor revealed not everybody acquired the memo a film stunt was being staged. When out of the loop bystanders seemed up and noticed what gave the impression to be a physique dangling precariously above them — they have been understandably distressed. “It introduced site visitors to a standstill on both facet of the bridge,” Fraser defined. He continued:
“There’s this dummy parachutist hanging from it. I had the TV on, and Oprah acquired interrupted as a result of there was a particular information report with helicopters saying a parachute is dangling on the bridge. And I am going — wait a minute, I am wanting on the helicopters and TV — any individual did not pull a allow, any individual’s going to get in hassle with the mayor’s workplace. So I can solely apologize for that.”
Clearly, it wasn’t prefer it was Fraser who dropped the ball. However no less than he had the hindsight to look again on the incident and acknowledge the form of turmoil it most likely induced that day. If something, the truth that it fooled so many individuals together with information crews is a testomony to the believability of each the stunt and model. Clearly, nobody was in any actual hazard and the entire thing was a misunderstanding. But it surely additionally underscores simply how a lot productions in city locales want to verify they do not all their i’s and cross all their t’s in terms of permits. Sadly, that wasn’t the one blunder looking back that one of many lead actors in “George of the Jungle” had in regard to the movie.