Brendan Fraser Starved Himself for ‘George of the Jungle’

A scary scenario. Brendan Fraser opened up concerning the drastic measures he took to stay in form whereas filming George of the Jungle — and the way it affected him bodily.

“I used to be waxed. Starved of carbohydrates,” the Mummy actor, 54, stated in an interview for Selection’s Actors on Actors collection revealed on Tuesday, December 6. “I’d drive residence after work and cease to get one thing to eat. I wanted some money in the future, and I went to the ATM, and I couldn’t keep in mind my PIN quantity as a result of my mind was misfiring. Banging on the factor. I didn’t eat that evening.”

Fraser additionally revealed that his character within the Tarzan parody movie lacked wardrobe choices since he solely donned “a loincloth.” Regardless of the horrible situations, the Nineties movie, which additionally starred Leslie Mann and Thomas Hayden-Church, went on to be a field workplace hit. The Disney film is certainly one of Fraser’s most iconic roles thus far and made him a family title.


Brendan Fraser.
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Nonetheless, the Blast From the Previous star took a break from appearing within the late 2000s to take care of well being points brought on by his work within the Mummy franchise. In 2018, Fraser claimed that he was sexually assaulted by the previous president of the Hollywood International Press Affiliation, Philip Berk, again in 2003. He revealed that the alleged incident performed a task in his determination to step out of the highlight.

4 years after the actor got here ahead with the allegations, he spoke out towards how the HFPA dealt with the scenario. In November 2022, he claimed in an interview with GQ that each Berk and himself needed to signal a press release that declared the incident “was meant to be taken as a joke and never as a sexual advance.”

“I knew they’d shut ranks,” Fraser stated on the time. “I knew they’d kick the can down the highway. I knew they’d get forward of the story. I knew that I actually had no future with that system because it was.”

In 2015, the Encino Man actor kickstarted a comeback for his appearing profession by showing in numerous initiatives, together with The Affair and Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon. In 2022, Fraser earned essential approval for his efficiency in The Whale and generated buzz for a possible Oscar nomination.

“This can be a prime alternative,” the SAG winner advised Vainness Truthful in August 2022 of his gig within the Darren Aronofsky movie. “I needed to vanish into it. My hope was that I’d grow to be unrecognizable.”

Following the movie’s premiere on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant, Fraser was delivered to tears after he acquired a six-minute standing ovation.