I still don't know who won the Canucks game. I saw the most amazing display of stars and was expecting to watch a bit more of the Canucks game, but ended up falling asleep before I could get either done. I went to bed (actually couch) last night at 10pm. And I felt like: Man, I got fucking old.OK, the dreaded drive home day. “I wasn't quite sure what the format was. “I think I was in mourning, and I didn't know what that meant.” He hadn't done press in a while suddenly he was sitting on a stool in front of an audience, promoting the third season of a show he'd barely been on. His mother had died of cancer just days before the interview. In the months that followed, theories sprang up about what ailed him, focusing on his 2009 divorce and the fact that two franchises he'd once starred in, The Mummy and Journey to the Center of the Earth, had been rebooted and recast without him.Īs it turns out, what was behind the sad Brendan Fraser meme was…sadness. Fraser seems morose and sad for much of it, he speaks in a near whisper. When his episodes of The Affair began airing, in late 2016, Fraser was asked to give his first interview in years, for AOL's YouTube channel. All told, Fraser says, he was in and out of hospitals for almost seven years.
At one point he needed to have his vocal cords repaired. Some more work on his back, bolting various compressed spinal pads together. 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. And on it went-in retrospect, far beyond where Fraser wanted it to go. Did MonkeyBone and a Mummysequel, The Mummy Returns, in 2001.
He remade Bedazzled, with Elizabeth Hurley, in 2000. (This was a natural part, minus the religious dynamics, for Fraser, who grew up in a happy but peripatetic family-his father had a job in Canada's office of tourism-and enrolled in a new school practically every other year.)
In 1992, he starred with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Chris O'Donnell in the drama School Ties, as a Jewish scholarship quarterback fighting for his place at an elite, anti-Semitic boarding school. For much of the 1990s, Fraser spent a lot of time emerging wide-eyed from bomb shelters (Blast from the Past) or Canada (Dudley Do-Right) or the rain forest (George of the Jungle), but he also took on more serious roles. He had the unique quality of a man beholding the world for the first time, and directors began casting him as exactly that. In Encino Man, the film that helped turn him into a star, Fraser played a caveman recently freed from a block of ice in modern-day California he likes to joke, or simply recount, that his audition consisted of wordlessly wrestling a plant. He was big and handsome in a broad, unthreatening way, and most important, he was game. This would become an on-screen signature of Fraser's: crashing into things. I think I bruised a rib, but I was like: That's okay! I'll take it. And I got my Screen Actors Guild card and an extra 50 bucks for the stunt adjustment, ’cause they threw me into a pinball machine. “They gave me a sailor outfit, along with some other guys, and we did a punch-up scene with some Marines. Fraser's first acting job was in a 1991 film called Dogfight, starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. He starts, uncharacteristically, at the beginning.
And so these synthetic flutes end up being the soundtrack to Fraser's story.
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