Brendan Fraser shared updates about his new movies coming after The Whale. He talked about a film called Rental Family, which was shot in Tokyo by Searchlight. He also mentioned he’s interested in starting a career as a producer. He spoke about this at the Red Sea Film Festival.
I finished a film earlier this year in Japan called Rental Family, the director, Hikari… is a Japanese American who has written a story about what it means to have a family as not being the one necessarily that we were born into, but whom we encounter and collect in our lives. Rental Family is an absurd sounding, funny title in itself but you can rent just about anything in Tokyo: a hat, a go-kart and a family.
said Fraser
The actor plays a man who has lived in Tokyo for a long time. When he faces money problems, he starts working for a company that rents out people to act as family members.
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he said to applause from the mainly local audience in the theater
Brendan Fraser is one of the many stars at the fourth Red Sea Film Festival this year, along with Michael Douglas, Michelle Yeoh, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Longoria, Andrew Garfield, Ranbir Kapoor, Cynthia Erivo, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Jeremy Renner.
During the event, a Japanese fan asked him why he chose Rental Family as one of his first big movie roles after winning an Oscar in 2022 for The Whale.
Because it was so far removed from anything I’d seen; anywhere I’ve been asked to go and work. My experience in Tokyo was life changing. I think it’s a wonderful, wonderful place. You can’t get a bad meal in that town. Technology is at a place that I think if I saw someone flying by with a jetpack, I just say, ‘I guess we’re doing that now’. Just the experience of being able to work with the Japanese crew do my best to chop my way through the tall grass of learning some Japanese myself, which I’ve already forgotten.
he said
Fraser shared that he recently finished working on a World War II movie called Pressure. In the film, he plays Dwight D. Eisenhower, the leader of the Allied forces, while Andrew Scott plays James Stagg, a weather expert from the UK. Anthony Maras direct the movie.
It’s the story of the 72 hours before the landing on the Normandy beaches on D-Day on Tuesday, June 6, and the decisions that went into Operation Overlord in light of one fly in the ointment, which was the weather was bad. My role is Dwight D. Eisenhower, hence the very short hair – it’s all growing back. He creates the reality of a scene to give an audience a feeling that it is a fly on the wall, and we’re seeing it in real time. Did I mention the movie is called Pressure because that is exactly what it was.
he said, singing praise for Maras as “a fantastic collaborator” as a director.
Fraser shared that he has started practicing for his return to acting on the New York stage after almost 15 years.
He will be in a new play called Grangeville, written by Samuel D. Hunter, the same person who wrote the play and movie script for The Whale.
Actors should get good and scared and stand up on these boards… that’s where it all began.
He suggested that all actors should find the courage to act on stage
The actor talked about a play he acted in during the mid-1990s called Four Dog and a Bone.
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It was about Hollywood and the movie business, and he performed alongside Parker Posey, Elizabeth Perkins, and Martin Short.
It was a little bit self-assured. It was being presented at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, Los Angeles… There was a joke in it about Steven Spielberg, and a prop was made that had his picture on the cover of Time Magazine. Marty’s character holds it up and cracks a joke about Steven Spielberg, and on opening night, there’s Steven Spielberg. The joke was coming, and everybody in the audience wanted to see what Spielberg was going to do, because they knew it was coming. Anything can happen on a stage, as well it should, but the lesson is, the show must go on, and I think it’s important to get the rust out of the chains.
Looking ahead, Fraser said he wants to try producing movies. With almost 35 years of experience and working on nearly 80 projects, he now gets to be more involved in planning movies from the very beginning.
I’m glad to be able now to feel like I can have a voice that’s pertinent in the early stages of developing screenplays. I’m no director. I don’t want to be, but I do have interest in producing and that’s where I’ll head next
he said without giving any details of projects he is circling
Source: Deadline