Brendan Fraser

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Brendan Fraser was on a role in the 1990s and early 2000s, starring in The Mummy, George of the Jungle, Crash and many other films. He says it was a break-neck pace. Since then, he took on smaller roles and retreated from Hollywood. But now he is back with a critically-acclaimed performance in The Whale. In this week's Sunday Sitdown, Willie and Brendan got together for a fireside chat.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:09.0	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:12.2	Got a great one for you this week with the Oscar-nominated Brendan Frazier.
0:17.5	He's having a bit of a comeback at the moment for his performance in The Whale.
0:22.6	It's an extraordinary story that was first to play, now a film where he plays a man who
0:27.7	weighs something like 600 pounds confined to his home trying to reconcile with his strange
0:34.1	daughter.
0:35.1	Brendan Frazier's a guy in the 90s was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
0:39.5	He fronted movies like Encino Man, School Ties, then Big Budget Stuff like George of
0:45.4	the Jungle, then of course the face of the mummy franchise, three movies that grossed
0:51.0	more than a billion dollars.
0:53.3	At the end of that run of the mummy, sometime in the mid 2000s, he kind of went away.
0:59.1	You'll hear him talk about this in the interview.
1:00.8	He had some injuries.
1:02.2	There was some thought that maybe Hollywood was done with him.
1:06.1	His health wasn't great.
1:07.7	He said, you know, I went around.
1:09.1	I was still working just in smaller stuff.
1:11.5	It's just that the phone wasn't ringing.
1:13.5	And so in some ways, The Whale marks a comeback.
1:16.8	He's shied away from that a little bit because he's like, I didn't go anywhere.
1:19.8	They kind of left me.
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