Brendan Fraser Apologizes to the City of San Francisco for 'George of the Jungle' Stunt

The Whale star apologized Thursday for a scene from his 1997 film George of the Wilderness where his personality George moved to the highest point of the Straight Scaffold in San Francisco to play out a legend act saving a parachuter.


"At the point when we were doing George of the Wilderness, George goes to save a parachutist tangled in the Brilliant Door Extension. That implies Disney put a life sized model draping by a parachute from the uprights," Fraser, 53, told the SF Entryway at the 45th Factory Valley Film Celebration about the scene. (He misidentified the extension being referred to.)

Brendan Fraser Apologizes to the City of San Francisco for 'George of the Jungle' Stunt

"It welcomed traffic to a halt on one or the other side of the scaffold," he proceeded.


"My trailer was on the opposite side in a parking garage. I simply recall watching the Brilliant Entryway Scaffold. There's this fake parachutist swinging from it. I had the television on, and Oprah got hindered on the grounds that there was an extraordinary news report with helicopters saying a parachute is hanging on the extension. Furthermore, I'm going — stand by a moment, I'm taking a gander at the helicopters and television — someone didn't pull a license, someone will cross paths with the city hall leader's office. So I can apologize for that."


As he acknowledged his lifetime accomplishment grant for acting at the celebration sometime thereafter for his exhibition in The Whale, Fraser repeated the story to the crowd and put out another conciliatory sentiment, per the power source, saying, "So all things considered, my terrible, it will not reoccur."


Fraser is gaining significant appreciation for his rebound execution in The Whale after to a great extent withdrawing from Hollywood as of late following a line of high-profile jobs during the '90s and right on time to mid-2000s.


He was as of late respected with a 5-minute wildly energetic applause at the London Film Celebration where the entertainer went in front of an audience as the credits moved for the film screening recently and soaked up the adoration, making the crowd cheer considerably stronger.


Fraser likewise showed up noticeably moved in the wake of getting a thunderous applause at the Venice Worldwide Film Celebration last month, telling Assortment existing apart from everything else in a new main story that he "felt so certifying."


"I was close to home since it was affirmation that what we did is having an effect," he added at that point. "What's more, that sort of reaction feels totally new in my expert life."