writing instructor Charlie, who tries reconnecting with his 17-year-old daughter after leaving his family to live with his male partner. He’s also expected to star in The Whale, which is about a hermetic, 600-lb.
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However, in 2021, Fraser played a role in Steven Soderbergh’s Detroit heist drama, No Sudden Move, which was full of double-crossing and streetwise thieves trying to get a bigger and bigger score.Īnd since then, Fraser has landed a part in Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon, based on the eponymous book about a series of murders in the 1920s in Osage County, Oklahoma. I was going through things that mold and shape you in ways that you’re not ready for until you go through them.” I mean, they were born, but they’re growing up. I needed to put a Band-Aid on it’ but more of an account of the reality of what I was walking around in,” he told GQ, before adding, “I changed houses I went through a divorce.
So, what I’m saying to you sounds, I hope, not like some sort of ‘Hey, I had a boo-boo. “Going to work - in between being in and out of those hospitals, that wasn’t always possible. In the end, he spent a total of seven years in and out of the hospital. There’s many reasons, but was this one of them? I think it was.”įraser also went through a divorce from ex-wife Afton Smith, and with injuries he sustained over the years on set, his body was falling apart. He told GQ, “The phone does stop ringing in your career, and you start asking yourself why. I thought I was going to cry.”įraser said that since the alleged incident, he was rarely invited back to the Golden Globes, leading him to question whether or not he’d been blacklisted by the HFPA. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. “I felt ill,” Fraser said of the alleged assault. In 2018, Fraser alleged in an interview with GQ that former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Philip Berk sexually assaulted him in 2003. Now, with his return, many fans have wondered why Fraser left Hollywood in the first place. Starting his career with an early success in Encino Man, Fraser’s career skyrocketed to new heights with George of the Jungle before reaching its zenith with The Mummy franchise.Īnd then, Fraser exited the spotlight for several years. All told, Fraser says, he was in and out of hospitals for almost seven years.In the ‘90s and early aughts, Brendan Fraser was not only one of the biggest action stars, he also brought his stellar comedic timing to the roles in which he was casted. At one point he needed to have his vocal cords repaired. Director: Stephen Sommers Stars: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo. Some more work on his back, bolting various compressed spinal pads together. At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love. And the lumbar didn't take, so they had to do it again a year later.” There was a partial knee replacement. I was building an exoskeleton for myself daily.” Eventually all these injuries required multiple surgeries: “I needed a laminectomy. Screw-cap ice packs and downhill-mountain-biking pads, 'cause they're small and light and they can fit under your clothes. “By the time I did the third Mummy picture in China,” which was 2008, “I was put together with tape and ice-just, like, really nerdy and fetishy about ice packs. The films, in addition to having diminishing returns, were causing a physical toll: He was a big man doing stunts, running around in front of green screens, going from set to set. “I believe I probably was trying too hard, in a way that's destructive,” Fraser says now. In addition to all of the other stuff, he suffered a lot of permanent injuries working on films, eventually making it very difficult for him to work.
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