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The Mummy star Oded Fehr says theater teaches actors to “punch like a girl”
Oded Fehr had to learn how to punch for The Mummy (because his theater training didn’t make it look convincing)
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Taking on a reanimated mummy is hard, and it’s even harder when you can’t throw a punch. If you’ve seen The Mummy, then you know Ardeth Bay was able to hold his own against the undead. However, the journey to get Ardeth into fighting shape wasn’t easy.
“When we did the first scene on The Mummy, we were on the car traveling through all these zombie guys jumping on the car,” Ardeth Bay actor Oded Fehr says during a Mummy spotlight panel at Emerald City Comic Con 2022. “I’m throwing punches and the stunt guy comes over and says, ‘Oded, can you do me a favor when you’re punching? Can you not do this [demonstrates wrist flap]?’ It was classical training. Theater training. In theater you know to kind of swing the punch backwards, but on camera it looks like this [demonstrates wrist flap again].”
Fehr’s costar Brendan Fraser jokes that Fehr would “punch like a girl,” which made the actor chuckle. The truth is the way you fight on stage is different than the way you fight on camera. And honestly, an undead mummy doesn’t care how you punch, so swing away.
For more on The Mummy, watch the complete panel video below.
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