Brendan Fraser has revealed why he didn’t converse to Dwayne Johnson on the set of The Mummy Returns.
Fraser defined that almost all of Johnson’s scenes have been CGI, as he seems in the direction of the top of the blockbuster, and that the pair didn’t meet on set.
The actor mentioned the movie in dialog with Drew Barrymore on The Drew Barrymore Show, the place Barrymore mentioned: “If I needed to act to a tennis ball I might fail miserably.”
“I occur to be actually good at it. [Do] you realize why? As a result of in The Mummy Returns, Dwayne Johnson was only a piece of tape on a stick,” Fraser replied.
Johnson went on to star in his personal Mummy spin-off in 2002’s The Scorpion King.
In the meantime, Brendan Fraser not too long ago received the award for Finest Actor on the Critics Alternative Awards for his efficiency in the Whale.
“It was Herman Melville who as soon as wrote that, ‘There are solely 5 critics in America… the remainder are asleep,’” Fraser started in his acceptance speech. “I don’t know what it means both, however I’m certain glad you wakened for me.
“This film, The Whale, is about love. It’s about redemption. It’s about discovering the sunshine in a darkish place. And I’m so fortunate to have labored with an ensemble that’s unimaginable, and contains Hong Chau who ought to have her personal film primarily based on each character she’s ever performed.”
He added: “I used to be within the wilderness. And I in all probability ought to have left a path of breadcrumbs. However you discovered me. Like all the very best administrators, you merely simply confirmed me the place to go to get to the place I wanted to be.
“Should you – like a man like Charlie, who I performed on this film – in any means battle with weight problems, otherwise you simply really feel such as you’re in a darkish sea, I would like you to know that if you can also have the power to simply get to your ft and go to the sunshine, good issues will occur.”