Brendan Fraser has revealed what it was like on set with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson during filming The Mummy Returns in 2001.
As it turns out, the pair didn’t speak much to one other, owing to the fact that Dwayne ‘was simply a piece of tape on a stick’.
Anyone who has seen The Mummy 2 knows that most of the former WWE star’s moments take place near the climax of the film, when he appears as a massive CGI scorpion/human hybrid.
Brendan, who is widely expected to win an Oscar for his outstanding performance in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, discussed his scenes (or lack thereof) with Dwayne in a new interview.
The 54-year-old starred as explorer Rick O’Connell in 1999’s The Mummy and returned for the sequel two years later.
Appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show this week, Brendan revealed he never actually met Dwayne when filming after Drew noted: ‘If I had to act to a tennis ball I would fail miserably.’


Brendan replied: ‘I happen to be really good at it. [Do] you know why? Because in The Mummy Returns, Dwayne Johnson was just a piece of tape on a stick.’
The Mummy’s sequel was a big success for Dwayne and secured him his own spin-off film, The Scorpion King, which was released in theatres in 2002.


Brendan previously stated that he would be open to appearing in a new Mummy film, saying, ‘I’m not averse to it.’
Speaking to Deadline, the star elaborated: ‘I don’t know an actor who doesn’t want a job.
‘I don’t think I’ve been this famous and unsalaried at the same time in my professional life, so sign me up! We’ve all got to start somewhere.’
The Mummy franchise was revived once before, in 2017 with Tom Cruise at the helm, but it did not go down well with viewers or critics.
In a Variety interview, Brendan was asked why he believed the new film didn’t work that time and suggested it was lacking ‘fun’.
‘The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy, which I didn’t see in that film, was fun.
‘That was what was lacking in that incarnation. It was too much of a straight-ahead horror movie.
‘The Mummy should be a thrill ride, but not terrifying and scary.’