EXCLUSIVE: Brendan Fraser, an Oscar Best Actor nominee this year for A24’s The Whale, has signed with CAA. He had been represented by the agency several times in the past, including in the early 2000s and early 2010s.
09.02.2023 - 00:59 / thewrap.com
Brendan Fraser opened up about how he almost played Superman back when J.J. Abrams was in charge of the franchise.The actor, who has most recently starred in – and is Oscar nominated for – “The Whale,” appeared on “The Howard Stern Show,” where the host asked him about the role.“Is the role that got away from you, when you were gonna be cast as Superman. I think it’s when J.J.
Abrams was in charge of the ‘Superman’ franchise, someone had approached you about being Superman, and then suddenly it was taken away from you,” Stern said. “Is that correct?”“Everyone in town was reading for Superman,” Fraser said. “They were testing I think maybe six or seven guys in 2002.”Fraser named Paul Walker as someone that tested before him along with “the usual suspects.” “Of course it’s a life-changing, amazing opportunity, but I had to reconcile with, ‘OK, say you do get the job to be the Man of Steel.
It’s going to be chipped on your gravestone. Are you OK with that? You will forevermore be known as the Man of Steel,'” Fraser remembered thinking. “There was a sort of Faustian bargain that went into [the] feeling, and I think inherently I didn’t want to be known for only one thing, because I prided myself on diversity my whole professional life.
I’m not a one-trick pony.”Stern asked Fraser how disappointed he was when he didn’t get the role.“I felt disappointed that there was an amazing opportunity and it didn’t come to fruition,” Fraser said. “It had to do a lot with some shenanigans and studio politics. And probably, inherently, in my screen test.
EXCLUSIVE: Brendan Fraser, an Oscar Best Actor nominee this year for A24’s The Whale, has signed with CAA. He had been represented by the agency several times in the past, including in the early 2000s and early 2010s.
The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” cast insisted Brendan Fraser get in on their 2023 SAG Awards fun on Sunday night.
Brendan Fraser is a winner!
On Sunday, Brendan Fraser took home the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. The 54-year-old star beat out Adam Sandler, Austin Butler, Bill Nighy and Colin Farrell to take home the trophy for his powerful performance in “The Whale”, and was already in tears as he took the stage to accept the award.
“The Whale” star got emotional while accepting the award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the 2023 SAG Awards on Sunday.“I’m smiling I’m breathing,” Fraser, 54, said. “That’s half the job.”The actor said that Ian McKellan told him that if he won and got to make an acceptance speech, he should “be good, be brief and be seated.”However, Fraser’s speech turned out to be much longer than the allotted time limit as he even mused about the SAG award itself.
Brendan Fraser took home the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. The 54-year-old star beat out Adam Sandler, Austin Butler, Bill Nighy and Colin Farrell to take home the trophy for his powerful performance in and was already in tears as he took the stage to accept the award.«I'm smiling and breathing, that's half the job!» he joked with the crowd as he took a deep breath.«I will treasure this, but never more than how I treasured… my SAG card that I earned in 1991,» Fraser shared. «It made me feel like I belonged.
Brendan Fraser is looking sharp on the red carpet.
So many stars made it out for the 2023 Producers Guild Awards on Saturday evening (February 25).
Brendan Fraser and Angela Bassett were among the big winners at the 2023 Hollywood Critics Association’s HCA Film Awards!
Normal People and Aftersun star Paul Mescal says people have been pronouncing his surname wrong since he became famous.The Irish actor, who was recently nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of a single dad in 2022 breakout film Aftersun, was speaking to The Hollywood Reporter when he discussed a common mispronunciation of his surname.“People get confused with how to pronounce my name because of the drink Mezcal,” he said, revealing that he pronounces it with a softer ‘s’ and ‘a’.“Everybody does it,” he added. “I pronounce it ‘Mescal’ and I wonder if I launched a tequila line I would have to, I would call it ‘Mescal’s Mezcal’.“I’m on the fence, I’m on the fence about that one,” he added.In a four-star review of Aftersun, NME wrote: “Liable to increase the cult around Mescal, following his BAFTA-winning turn in Normal People, Aftersun may be small in scale, but it leaves a distinct and lasting impression.
It’s no secret that Brendan Fraser is in the midst of his “Brenaissance” after winning rave reviews for his Oscar-nominated performance as a morbidly obese English teacher Charlie in “The Whale”.
Brendan Fraser's transformation for . On Thursday, production company A24 posted a time lapse that showcases the 54-year-old actor's dramatic transformation into Charlie, his 600-pound character in the award-winning film, which was directed by Darren Aronofsky.The video shows a team of artists applying makeup and prosthetics to Fraser as he passes the time by looking on his phone.Back in December, Fraser and prosthetics makeup designer Adrien Morot told that the actor's transformation took up to six hours a day and 300 pounds of prosthetics. A post shared by A24 (@a24)When ET spoke with Fraser that same month, the actor opened up about how his character is more than who he is physically.«The point is he's a person, he's a man, and he's so much more than who he would appear to be to the world,» Fraser said. «It's so easy to be cynical and dismiss others that way when we know the challenge of connecting with those is what brings us closest together.»Then, in February, Fraser reacted to his career renaissance in a separate interview with ET.«I wouldn't have known what to do with it, 20-25 years ago,» he said of his current career success.
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is weighing a potential Cannes 2023 world premiere, as previously tipped in Deadline’s The Dish in July of last year, we can confirm.
Colin Farrell to “Triangle of Sadness” making Brian Tyree Henry laugh so hard he cried, this year’s Oscar hopefuls spoke with Variety‘s senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin at the annual nominee luncheon about which film most recently brought them to tears. For Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), he said that he was “destroyed” by “All Quiet On the Western Front.” “It’s a beautiful and powerful and important film,” he said. “It’s painfully relevant today, shockingly and shamefully relevant.” “I teared up watching Adam Sandler in ‘Hustle,’ trying to convince this guy that he needs to play better basketball or get out and how passionate he was,” said Brandan Fraser (“The Whale”). “I’m a softie, I tear up during ‘Ratatouille.'”
Brendan Fraser has been praised as a “class individual” while on the red carpet of the BAFTAs 2023.The 76th BAFTAs (British Academy Film Awards) are revealed tonight (February 19) in a ceremony hosted by Richard E. Grant and Alison Hammond at London’s Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre.Taking to the red carpet ahead of the event though, Fraser proved just how classy he could be.Speaking to red carpet host Ali Plumb, Fraser was given a bumper sticker that reads “Honk if you’d rather be watching the 1999 cinematic masterpiece The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.”“I don’t know where this will fit, but maybe one of your many people…” started Plumb before Fraser took the stickers and put them inside his jacket pocket.
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Brendan Fraser is savoring every moment of his career renaissance.On Thursday, ET debuts an exclusive clip from the upcoming awards show, the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, where Fraser won Best Actor for his performance in «I know life doesn't begin at 50,» Fraser tearfully tells the crowd as he accepts the award. «But it can yield renewal and reward beyond our wildest dreams.»Backstage, in ET's exclusive footage, Fraser admits to the camera that he's grateful for this new wave of success later in life.«I wouldn't have known what to do with it, 20-25 years ago,» he says of the awards season attention.
Brendan Fraser is being honored at the 2023 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Oscars Nominees Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.The annual tradition allows nominees from all categories to rub elbows before the big night and this year was no different.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor When “Batgirl” completed its seven-month production in Scotland, star Leslie Grace received a wrap gift from Brendan Fraser, who played her nemesis, Firefly, in the DC movie — a gold necklace that included two charms, a little bell and a pair of dice. “The card said a lot of really sweet things, but he basically said, ‘I give you this necklace because in this business you gotta have a little luck. So ring your bell and never stop,’” Grace says. “It was just like, Whoa. And after all this, it’s had so much meaning.” “All this” is the August bombshell that Warner Bros. Discovery had decided to kill the film, co-directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. After the first disappointing test screenings, WBD executives chose to take a tax write-off instead of trying to complete work on the film, which had cost the debt-ridden studio $90 million, and would have cost many more millions to finish.