Brendan Fraser’s absence from Hollywood was largely due to his injuries in films like THE MUMMY in the 1990s.

Brendan Fraser is back on top. After the premiere of the Venice Film Festival, the actor’s last appearance on the big screen in the drama The whale, which led to a standing ovation and Oscar buzz surrounding his performance, Fraser is in high demand and fans are happy to welcome him back. Brendan Fraser was my favorite actor when I was little.

I liked it Encino man, School ties, Explosion from the pastAnd George of the jungle. Regardless of whether Fraser was in a comedy or a drama, he always brought such honesty to every role. He was playful and innocent, and he could get emotionally raw in any scene he called for. But at times, the role took a lot from him physically and he ended up paying a high price for it.

In a 2018 interview with GQ, Fraser talked about his first acting job in a 1991 film titled air combat, with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. He played sailor no. 1. He explained:

“They gave me a sailor suit, along with other guys, and we did a fist scene with some Marines. And I got my Screen Actors Guild card and an extra $ 50 for the stunt upgrade, because they threw me in a pinball machine. I think I bruised a rib, but I was like: All right! I’ll take it. I can do it again. If you want, I’ll break it. Do you want me to do it again?“

This was a skill Fraser could add to his resume and it stayed. After some of his early roles, including that of a caveman, he was cast in the role of Disney. George of the jungle, and describes his character, saying, “Then I look at myself and I see only a steak walking”. This allowed the 1999 horror adventure film, The Mummy, which did great at the box office and kicked off a franchise. But it came at a time when Fraser was playing back-to-back roles, doing his own stunts and working on set, and he and his work were both suffering.

Fraser said:

“I think I was probably trying too hard, in a destructive way. When I did the third Mummy picture in China “, which was 2008,” I was put together with duct tape and ice, just, like, really nerdy and fetishist about ice packs. Screw cap ice bags and downhill mountain bike pads, because they are small and light and can fit under your clothes. I was building an exoskeleton for myself every day.

Eventually all of these injuries required multiple surgeries:

“I needed a laminectomy. And the lumbar didn’t catch, so they had to do it again a year later. ”There was a partial knee replacement. Some more work on the back, joining together various compressed spinal cushions. repair his vocal cords.All in all, says Fraser, he has been in and out of hospitals for nearly seven years.

He went on to say, sadly:

“This is really probably going to be a little cheesy for you. But I felt like the horse of Animal Farm, whose job was to work and work and work. Orwell wrote a character who was, I believe, the proletariat. He worked for everyone’s sake, didn’t ask questions, didn’t cause any problems until he killed him … I don’t know if I was sent to the glue factory, but I felt like I had to rebuild shit that I built that was torn down and do it again for the good of all. Whether it hurts you or not. “

The interview goes on to talk about the fact that Fraser’s physical ailments were one of the main symptoms of his absence, while an allegation of sexual assault was another. Not one made against him, but one made by him. In 2003, Fraser claims he was sexually assaulted by Philip Berk, a former president of the HFPA, at a Hollywood Foreign Press Association luncheon. It took Fraser 15 years to tell the story of him, similar to so many other victims.

No wonder it has been out of the spotlight for so long. I am glad that he was able to deal with the physical and mental struggles that he had acquired over the years and that he is back to making films for the enjoyment of the fans.