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Do you like venomous arachnids? There’s a job for you in Hollywood: scorpion wrangler, as the cast of The Mummy learned
The Mummy cast shed light on one of the most interesting jobs in Hollywood – scorpion wrangler.
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If you want a job in show business, but you can’t act, there are tons of interesting jobs on a film set. For example, if a film is shooting in a desert climate, the studio will hire scorpion wranglers to make sure the venomous arachnids don’t disrupt production. In other words, your job is to walk around the desert and catch scorpions.
The 1999 film The Mummy was filmed in Marrakesh and the Sahara Desert, where the cast recall seeing lots of scorpions.
“The scorpions. You would show up on set and there’s a whole bunch of scorpions,” Ardeth Bay actor Oded Fehr says during a Mummy spotlight panel at Emerald City Comic Con 2022. “These will kill you, but don’t worry. We have the wranglers that will catch the scorpions, and it’s just a bunch of guys with a stick.”
“It’s just guys stabbing rocks all day long,” Brendan Fraser says. “And then they catch stuff and they come over and they go, ‘Oh, look at this! Look at this,’” Fehr recalls. “They put it in a water bottle. Ugh,” Fraser says.
If putting venomous arachnids in water bottles to share actors sounds like your thing, then consider a career as a scorpion wrangler.
For more on The Mummy, watch the complete panel video below:
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