Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of The Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Today we revisit one of our favorite conversations with the man who won the Academy Award this

year for Best Actor, Brendan Fraser.

He won it for his performance in The Whale, a truly extraordinary performance, a wrenching

difficult performance and he deserves all the praise he got for this.

As you know, huge movie star Brendan Fraser then kind of ducked out of the spotlight for

a decade before coming back with this film, so I got to visit him at home ahead of the

Academy Awards this year on the eve of the Oscars to talk about all the buzz about this

movie and all the love he's getting and about kind of where he ducked out for ten years.

So sit back, relax again and enjoy my conversation with Brendan Fraser on The Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

Well thanks for having us over, Brendan, this is amazing.

I want to point out the fire behind us, handmade by you, no prop master, nothing like that.

It's all you.

Thank you very much.

I have to imagine this is a nice place to escape, get to, especially with the whirlwind

that has been your liking for the last several months.

It has been and it always, always was the purpose of this place was to have three, three

boys be able to come through it and splash or break or do anything to the walls that's

concrete and wood and steel.

You can just hose it down if you have to and it turns out they're the most mild mannered,

well behaved, non-projectile throwing children.

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