He created his own tricks.
Fraser, though, was riding the tide of prosperity better than most when things took a wrong turn. He didn’t act like a prima donna while filming, and he performed all of his own stunts, which seems absurd for a scene in which he is swinging from vines. The actor recounted, “I remember once I was put on a crane 60 feet in the air, and I had to swing down at 30 mph for a 300-foot swoop.” The excellent Brendan Fraser, was there anything he couldn’t do?