Brendan Fraser on Eisenhower, The Mummy 4, and Chris Farley
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
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4.7 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The guys catch up with Brendan Fraser to talk about life after winning an Oscar, working with Chris Farley on Airheads, and becoming Dwight D. Eisenhower for his new movie, Pressure. They also cover the highly anticipated fourth Mummy movie, why the third one was set in China, and how he used to purposefully fall out of his chair during auditions.
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| 0:00.0 | I always feel like someone's going to walk in the door and hand me a dish towel and say, |
| 0:04.4 | Fraser, get back to the... |
| 0:06.2 | Get out of here. |
| 0:06.7 | You know, it just, it's in me. |
| 0:08.7 | Yeah, the third one, it's, it's kind of, it's sort of the problem child. |
| 0:15.1 | Okay. |
| 0:15.7 | Which had the strange elements that the audience were like, you know, you're giving me something that I don't. |
| 0:23.6 | You're telling me it's one thing and it's kind of not, you know, you know, |
| 0:26.6 | what people like. |
| 0:27.6 | I hate that. |
| 0:28.6 | We can't do that. |
| 0:29.6 | We did it in the other movie. |
| 0:30.6 | They want to see something new and then it's like, hmm. |
| 0:33.6 | You can't reinvent the wheel. |
| 0:34.6 | No, you want, if you want, you eat an Oreo, you want that cookie. Yeah. It tastes like that. You want the band to get back together, which is what we are going to do. And the band is back together. Yes, we're getting the band back together. The fly on the wall aspect of being in the room to see what the dice. Thanks for the pluck. That's the name of the podcast. |
| 0:54.6 | Oh, excellent. |
| 0:55.7 | That's right. |
| 0:58.0 | So, Brendan Fraser, you say it wrong. |
| 1:02.2 | I say it right. |
| 1:02.8 | Brendan, a phrase you were. |
| 1:04.6 | I say it funny because he did a cameo in Dickie Roberts. |
| 1:09.6 | And he knew the director because the director did. George of the |
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