“More dizzying than an action sequence”: Brendan Fraser returns with Rental Family
The 57-year-old actor is back, three years after his Oscar for The Whale, and continues to explore intimate cinema far from the action. “Today, what moves me is a scene where someone serves you tea without knowing what to say…” He confides in Première.
Three years after his Oscar for The WhaleBrendan Fraser makes his return as headliner in Rental Familycurrently in cinemas. A social melodrama filmed in Tokyo, in which he plays an American who rents his services to people who are too lonely. A discreet, almost brooding role, following his spectacular Oscar in the skin of a 270 kilo teacher filmed by Darren Aronofsky.
“The title sounds like an absurdist comedy from the 1990s, but it’s a very real phenomenon. I think there are 300 agencies in Tokyo that rent out family members: a father to accompany someone to a hotel, someone to cry at a funeral… It poses a super thorny moral question: Is it okay to pay someone to pretend, even if everyone knows it’s totally fake?” confides Brendan Fraser in an interview to read in the new First (number 570, currently on newsstands and on the online store), .
The subject immediately interested the 57-year-old star, who was able to see an analogy with his own profession: “It’s true that my role in Rental Family is a bit like acting basically: you have to pretend to love, to reassure… But my character is an actor without an audience, a guy who will never get applause. It’s very moving.“
Emotion is precisely what Brendan Fraser is looking for today. A way of making cinema at eye level and returning to basics:
“Yes, I’ve made huge, noisy, physical films. I’m proud of them. I’ve played with mummies and superheroes… and here I play with simple emotions. Today, what moves me is a scene where someone serves you tea without knowing what to say. It’s more dizzying than any action sequence.”
That being said, Brendan Fraser still signed up to play in The Mummy 4coming soon to the cinema with Rachel Weisz.
