“I did get fully choked-out.
Then they’ve got to go in [for a close-up].
The first take, I’m doing my best choking acting.
Steve says, ‘Can we got for another one and take up the tension on the rope?’
I said, ‘All right, one more take.’
Because a noose around your neck’s going to choke you in the arteries, no matter what.
I regained consciousness and one of the EMTs was saying my name.
There was gravel in my ear and s really hurt.
The stunt coordinator came over, and he said, ‘Hi!
Welcome to the club, bro!
Ha ha ha!’
And I was like, “Ha ha, funny?
Like, What the hell?
I want to go home!
‘, or something like that.
Sommers recalls the incident differently.
“[Brendan] is totally to blame,” says the director.
I guess it cut off his carotid artery, or whatever, and knocked him out.
He did it to himself”
Brendan?
“You know what?
To be fair to that remark, I did make one fatal error.
I’ll really fing sell it, you know!
That had to have been a [lesson in how] to asphyxiate yourself.
I mean, that had to have been it.
So, you know what?
In me pointing fingers at Stephen, and vice versa, you got me on that point.
I was doing my job to look like a man dangling by his neck about to die.
Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
