The Canadian-American actor was recently in the news for his movie The Whale. The Movie was released on Dec 9. And the movie is doing good at the box office with pretty of collections. Brendan Fraser was the leading man on the big screen in the 90s. He was the leading actor of “The Mummy” as well. Here the question arises…..Why this talented actor suddenly disappeared from Hollywood and why he is currently on trending? We’ll give answers to every of your question. Keep Scrolling down.
How leading man of the big screen suddenly disappeared?
Star actor of The Mummy franchise Brendan Fraser was frequently a leading man on the big screen during the 90s and 00s. Currently, he is on the big screen, but the actor is not the high-profile star he once was.
Once the interview and discussion with GQ, he also mentioned why his career has been turning down during the 2000s. Firstly, the actor underwent several injuries by doing the stunt work. He undergoes many surgeries which include a laminectomy, a lumbar that didn’t take and had to be done again a knee replacement, and also treatment on his vocal cord continuing for 3 years.
Furthermore, the actor mentioned about his mother who passed away in 2016. And he expressed of his period that he had suffered with failure
“I changed houses; I went through a divorce. Some kids were born. I mean, they were born, but they’re growing up. I was going through things that mould and shape you in ways that you’re not ready for until you go through them.”
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Furthermore, the actor also spoke about the incident that occurred in 2003 at a luncheon organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in the Beverly Hills Hotel involving Philip Berk, Fraser describes:
“His left-hand reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint. And he starts moving it around” (an incident that Berk claims is a “complete fabrication”).
Furthermore, he also explained: “ill… like a little kid… like there was a ball in my throat” and that he became “depressed” and “reclusive” afterwards.
Afterwards, when he kicked out of the Superman movie and he expressed his feeling and said “making him feel like he “didn’t measure up” and had “failed.”
He says that he ultimately disappeared because he “bought into the pressure that comes with the hopes and aims that come with a professional life that’s being moulded and shaped and guided and managed.”
He adds
: “That requires what they call thick skin, or just ignoring it, putting your head in the sand, or gnashing your teeth and putting on your public face, or just not even…needing the public. Ignoring. Staying home, damn it. You know, not ’cause I’m aloof or anything, but because I just felt I couldn’t be a part of it. I didn’t feel that I belonged.”
Brendan Fraser Comeback on the big screen and the future projects
Brendan Fraser is currently on the news for his movie ” The Whale”. The movie which is doing good at the box office and has an IMDb rating of 8.3/10. Besides this, he is currently engaging with his future projects named ” Killers of the Flower Moon” and Brothers”
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