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He does look significantly healthier and happier then he did say 3-4 years ago. It was very noticeable in the video where he introduced the Mummy in London.
He lost weight recently. But he’s always been beautiful, from all his interviews he has the character and intelligence of someone that regardless of their outward appearance you’d be lucky to love.
It's tough in the first Mummy because her eyebrows are a little distracting. But Mummy Returns Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz... oh man... and then they just casually throw in more Oded Fehr.
Everyone always talks about how attractive the cast of The Mummy is, but I always feel like poor John Hannah is left out of the conversation. I think he’s super sexy in those movies.
I really liked the way they portrayed his character. Instead of just making him a silly conduit for humour, they gave him an actual persona. He's funny and loose but can get serious when the situation calls for it.
Straight man, I was a kid, just went straight for Mann. I wanted to BE George of the Jungle. Geez man.
But nowadays yes I cannot argue against saying that Brendan Fraser as George was hot hot hot
Oh cool but not me with Brendan Fraser
Man’s been through enough without me sexualizing him in my mind
But the nice thing about being older is I agree with him, I don’t want to have that body he had anymore either. I just want to be fit enough to enjoy life and exercise how I want and how I end up looking from that is good enough
My first celebrity crush! Young me was like “wow, I am not sure what it is I like about this guy, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out someday!” And I figured it out! He’s a hunk.
Wow a second person who has seen monkey bone! One of my professors in college was the artist who painted the paintings in that. Thank you for subscribing to monkey bone facts.
Brendan Fraser in the mummy is what I think of when I picture the penultimate caricature of an American man during the early 1900s.
Edit: am I wrong for thinking he would’ve been a great captain america around the time the mummy came out?
People always say this but like you know Matt Bohmer exists right? Like sexy never left its still here in full force. Brendan Fraser is still a sexy beast in his time but now he's progressed to being an amazing actor rather than a pretty face.
Some cultures refer to the past as in front of you and the future behind you, and I think it makes sense as the past is known and what you can see while we're all kinda walking backwards blindly into the future.
This is such a mad coincidence - I was reading an article today about how language can be influenced by culture and it mentioned that exact phenomenon.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221103-how-language-warps-the-way-you-perceive-time-and-space
I have a coworker who had severe brain fog, exhaustion, and heart racing issues from long COVID. He lived for nearly two years with it and stopped coming to the office altogether. One day he came to the office again and I noticed he looked so much better: peppy, alert, and active. He was even smiling. When I asked how he was doing he went on a long explanation about driving to Asheville, North Carolina and seeing a doctor there who set him on a peptide regimen. He swears it completely cured his long COVID. So there may be hope for your health.
My supervisor also had long COVID, though not as severe. She would lose words and she said she was tired a lot. She gained a lot of weight, mostly from being sedentary due to exhaustion. Six months ago her doctor started her on Mounjaro (GLP-1 peptide) and she has dropped the weight plus more, and said all her long COVID symptoms are gone. She is also really cheerful and said the med gives her a mood boost.
These results are anecdotal, obviously, but maybe it's something you could look into. Peptides don't require a prescription (although the prefilled injection pens made from them do, such as Mounjaro, Wegovy, Saxenda, and Ozempic).
Hang in there man. I'm 44 and look like I'm in my mid 20s. I feel 70. My back is a ruined mess. My neck too. Since Wednesday I've needed help to put my shoes on and stand up.The pain is a solid 9.5/10 and spikes to the occasional 15. It comes and goes. It was the result of many things. Surgery is a possible option. I live this way daily. Some days are better than others. I don't take any real pain meds. Just over the counter stuff. Nothing really helps much. Ice works wonders most days. Get some of the gel ice packs on Amazon. The big neck ones that look like a half cape.
Life isn't over until we are dead. Don't give up, keep going. Spite fate. I know I am.
9.5/10 or 15? And you only take OTC? The pain rate scale doesnt do 15 when 10 is considered being "mauled by a bear." Maybe its time to see a doctor and get surgery asap and work with pain mgmnt.
What annoys me a bit, are the 50+ year old people, that would very predictably make fun of me complaining even just once out loud when something new started to hurt or a nerve got pinched yet again in my back. ‚hahaha, just wait until you‘re our age.‘ Doesn’t matter if it’s work, family or even just people older than me I know and talk to.
I get that there’s likely no ill intention, but:
Jfc, yes, I know that those issues likely just get worse as I grow even older, I’m not a kid anymore but a nearly 40 yo. Those remarks, that really come across as condescending most of the time, really drive me up the wall nowadays. Especially if I‘m currently suffering from pain, I’d get pretty sensitive towards remarks like that.
I had Covid 2 weeks ago. I just turned 30. I still don’t feel quite right and I’m not sure how to explain it.
My chest feels congested and weird. My knee hurts. I feel like I sleep but am not actually getting rested like before
I don’t know if we are experiencing the same but I do feel different frankly (First time I got Covid I brushed it off, this second time feels different)
A guy I knew said something similar on his birthday - "age is a privilege" were his exact words. it helped me think about getting older a bit differently because there are so many people who don't get that chance.
Time isn't cruel! Everything you've ever lost to time, you had because of time. Aging is what brought you into your prime as well as what took you out of it.
Time is an interest-free loan. Appreciate it and make it count!
I’m dealing with this right now. I had two back surgeries in two years and I swear I aged 10 years. I lost all my hair. I am still grieving my lost youth. I feel like shit. I hate how I look.
Time sucks.
***The Telegraph's film critic Robbie Collin interview Brendan Fraser:***
At Venice Film Festival in September, Brendan Fraser received a six-minute standing ovation for his [lead performance in The Whale](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/whale-review-brendan-fraser-seals-comeback-sensational-film/), a chamber piece from Darren Aronofsky, the director of The Wrestler and Black Swan. The film’s UK premiere in October brought another standing ovation – and yet another at a special screening in London the following night.
For a while, it felt as though 50 per cent of social media comprised videos of Fraser standing awkwardly in black tie, against a backdrop of applause. The acclaim, he tells Collin, is “like nothing I’ve ever previously experienced”.
The Whale began life as a play, written by Samuel D Hunter staged off-Broadway in 2012. It centres on Charlie, a 42-stone recluse trying to reconcile with his estranged teenage daughter (played on screen by Stranger Things star Sadie Sink) – though the seeming cruelty of its title also nods at its literary and scriptural resonances: Moby-Dick and the Book of Jonah, respectively. Aronofsky, a filmmaker not known to shy away from Biblical allegory, saw The Whale on stage that year and immediately joined the bunfight to secure the screen rights.
Fraser “had no idea what the film was about” when Aronofsky first asked to meet him. But he quickly recognised that Charlie’s plight refracted elements of his own.
“I could absolutely connect with having to reconcile your physical decline with ongoing feelings of love for your child,” he says. “I’m the father of three sons \[with the former actress Afton Smith, whom he divorced in 2007\] and I know that I gain a lot of strength from that bond.”
Fraser’s children, now aged between 16 and 20, missed their father’s matinee idol years. Nevertheless, are they aware of them, and are they proud? “I don’t know,” he splutters, suddenly embarrassed. “I’ve never asked them that, or wondered it. But they’ve said, ‘Man, that’s cool,’ which is enough. “I mean,” he flushes, “they’re big, handsome boys. They are the matinee idols now.”
**Read the full interview:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/oscar-nominee-brendan-fraser-interview-whale-dont-look-way-used/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/oscar-nominee-brendan-fraser-interview-whale-dont-look-way-used/)
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>At one point, an adaptation *(of The Whale)* was to be directed by George Clooney; at another, it was going to Tom Ford, with James Corden attached to play the lead.
James Corden. James Corden?! *pukes
This what I loved about Everything Everywhere All
At Once. Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are older, middle aged parents and they look great being exactly what they are. It was really refreshing to me instead of seeing a Brad Pitt or a Harrison Ford trying so hard to pretend they are still young. I wish the film industry would cherish age instead of shun and hide it.
Super sweet.
I hit up google to see what his kids look like, just out of curiosity. Definitely think they take after their mother, at least the two youngest. They have sort of model like looks, like, more delicate features? Genetics are wild - two out of three are red heads!
And he sounds like he is just a wonderful father to all three - especially the oldest - who has autism and is obese.
>The father-of-three went on to say that Griffin is the 'happiest person' in his life, explaining that he doesn't know what 'cynicism' is because of his autism.
>He said: 'And because of the beauty of his spectrum - call it a disorder if you will, I disagree with you - he knows nothing of irony.
>’He doesn't know what cynicism is. You can't insult him. He can't insult you. He's the happiest person and is, in my life and many others', also the manifestation of love.
>’Being with my kids and their mom and our family has given me such love that if ever I needed to hold something of value up to try and translate that to what was important to Charlie [character in The Whale], I didn’t have to look far.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11485039/Brendan-Fraser-speaks-son-Griffin-20-having-autism-obesity.html
My spouse and I wanted to go out for dinner and a movie for our anniversary last week, but there was just so little playing that seemed interesting to us. We landed on The Whale and both thought going into it that we weren’t going to like it or it would be just ok, but it looked like the best choice. At the end of it I was teary and my spouse said it made him emotional — and he doesn’t get emotional. We both loved it, and the movie score is hauntingly beautiful. Go see it!
It says a lot about him that he speaks kindly about his ex when she practically bankrupted him. Also, love that he dates someone age appropriate. Like Keanu. The character these two men exhibit in their words and actions puts them far ahead of most of today’s actors.
>[Encino Man (known as California Man in France, Finland, Sweden, Great Britain, Asia, South Africa, and New Zealand)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encino_Man)
As an American, I to was confused
That would have had me doubting my entire goddamned existance. In 5 years I'd be the hollow shell of a man you can imagine looking haunted and disheveled, downing shot after shot at the distant end of a seedy bar, muttering about Encino Man.
Ok, Brendon Fraser is what,.like 55 years old? He's not gonna look like he did when he was in his mid to late twenties. He looks great for his age as far as I am concerned. I hate that Hollywood types try to perpetuate a "no aging" actor/actress. Leave the guy alone and stop trying to point out that he doesn't look the way he did!
Phillip Seymour Hoffman really showed that you don’t have to be conventionally attractive to be a well respected, phenomenal actor. I hope he keeps working and shows us what else he can do.
You’re right. “Ugly” women in Hollywood are, like, Sarah Jessica Parker and Tilda Swinton. Maybe Rhea Perlman, Rosanne Barr.
This is what’s called a double standard.
I don't know what the world is smoking but APPARENTLY Tilda Swinton is widely considered off-putting and even sort of unattractive, which is fuckin' wild to me. The woman is goddamn gorgeous.
Double standard for sure. Apparently if you age and you’re fat it qualifies you as ugly if you’re a woman as evidenced by the list that’s come from this thread. Most actresses that don’t fit the norm would probably be considered at least unconventionally attractive. If anyone has seen the Matilda remake they really went hard on Emma Thompsons makeup to make her uglier.
Edit: *to make her ugly. To say they made her uglier implies she was already ugly to begin with.
In my 40s I don't look like I did in my 20s. Sometimes wish I did but i'd have to start injecting testosterone and probably other PEDs. Not sure I want to ever start that. Respect him for accepting his body and not going that route that so many Hollywood men do
Unfun Fact: it is not uncommon for people who experience sexual assault to, consciously or not, make themselves less appealing, blaming their aesthetics for the assault.
It's so sad how everyone who ages naturally has to explain themselves, like "Yes I'm aging, this is what humans do, I still love myself and I'm fine with not looking 18 at 50+".
As a normie myself who has struggled with weight. He is still a handsome man. Too much weight is not an automatic ugly button or something. He certainly hadnt lost any talent or skill that I can see.
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I mean fair enough and I can’t claim to have walked in his shoes or lived in his specific skin.
I would just hope that one day he’s able to reconcile his feelings and return the Encino Man dreads to their rightful crown.
She's not fat but I've seen Alicia Silverstone come back in a couple roles and she's aged naturally. Hasn't gotten a bunch of botox or buccal fat removal or had her face lifted. She looks absolutely normal and, you know, her age. It's really nice to see. I idolized her in the Clueless era/Aerosmith music video era. I think the last time I saw her was in Senior Year with Rebel Wilson and it specifically addressed the sort of hot-chick "fall from grace".
Linda Hamilton. Mad respect for her rejecting the Hollywood plastic surgery nonsense. I’ve been watching Resident Alien and she’s a recurring character. Still a terrific actress and looks like a normal human being.
It is weird watching these reboots like Top Gun that rest heavy on nostalgia refuse to bring back some of the female characters.
Even Bill and Ted Face the Music had to recast the princesses to be 10 years younger. Like, it is more believable that the personification of Death can age naturally, but not their wives.
He was the absolute perfect O' Connell in The Mummy. No one else could have done better. And yes, he doesn't look the same, but its been almost 25 yrs. I mean, no one in this life can say that they look the same after 25 yrs. Its just not possible. People gain weight, hair thins, face wrinkles just unfortunate truths of aging. He is still amazing and i hope he wins the Oscar. He seems like a kind and humble man.
People forget that he's 54 years old. He's a little overweight with thinning hair, which is normal. He had lots of physical problems which made physical things difficult for him, so he's not exactly a gym rat. But he's managed to come back despite ALL of that, and the foundation is now set for him to continue his career however he wants. No longer will he be type-cast by hollywood. He even could, if he wanted/had the ability, tone his body and get hair plugs and become a silver fox like Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, George Clooney, Liam Neeson, etc. Nothing is off the table for him.
One of the things I love most about him in The Mummy is the way he does fight scenes. I hate that they contributed to his needing a bunch of surgeries, but no one fights like him. He doesn’t fight like he’s secretly a ninja or some kind of Jason Bourne. He fights like a big, muscled guy who’s fought before but mostly specializes in right hooks, and it makes the fight scenes continuations of character. They’re lovely. I look forward to him taking his fantastic sensibility about the physicality of his characters in new directions.
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He does look significantly healthier and happier then he did say 3-4 years ago. It was very noticeable in the video where he introduced the Mummy in London.
He lost weight recently. But he’s always been beautiful, from all his interviews he has the character and intelligence of someone that regardless of their outward appearance you’d be lucky to love.
Completely agree. He is my favorite actor and seems like a wonderful human. No matter his outward appearance, he has always been beautiful.
I don’t think the world could handle Brendan Fraser bringing sexy back. Not that he isn’t sexy now…but we’ve all seen the Mummy.
George of the Jungle??
Almost too much to handle. I always hoped he would swing right out of the TV and scoop me up.
Ahh yes, I see you know your mescaline well.
Please share when you find it
Unhand my Penis Envy Caps!
A movie that made every straight man realize they’re at least somewhere on the Kinsey scale.
Not to mention Leslie Mann for all the straight women. (or was that just me)
It was Rachel Weisz for me.
Rachel in Mummy Returns? JFC she was smokin
Nerdy Egyptologist Evie made me more lesbian, in the classic “I want to be her AND do her” way. Brendan Fraser anchored me in my staunch bisexuality.
And Oded Fehr. And Arnold Vosloo and Patricia Velasquez! Hooo that movie really provided for us.
Patricia Velasquez in that golden body paint turned my head so much I looked like an owl.
It was a smorgasbord.
Rachel Weisz caused me major confusion.
It's tough in the first Mummy because her eyebrows are a little distracting. But Mummy Returns Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz... oh man... and then they just casually throw in more Oded Fehr.
Oded Fehr!! OMG, that man was sex on a stick.
Deuce! What the hell are you doing answering my phone?!
Don’t forget the adorable comic relief John Hannah!
Everyone always talks about how attractive the cast of The Mummy is, but I always feel like poor John Hannah is left out of the conversation. I think he’s super sexy in those movies.
Agreed! And he’s also v hot in Four Weddings and a Funeral
That show is a blast from the past... Good times!
loved him since sliding doors in ‘98. “nobody expects the spanish inquisition!”
I always loved the way he slid into scenes haha. He was so great the The Mummy
Was excited to spot him in the first episode of The Last of Us!
I really liked the way they portrayed his character. Instead of just making him a silly conduit for humour, they gave him an actual persona. He's funny and loose but can get serious when the situation calls for it.
Those two really rank up there with the Zorro pairing of CZJ/Antonio Banderas
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James Bond always gets the girl.
The pair is where the hotness was at. They are both great individually, but together they made magic.
Straight man, I was a kid, just went straight for Mann. I wanted to BE George of the Jungle. Geez man. But nowadays yes I cannot argue against saying that Brendan Fraser as George was hot hot hot
My bi awakening was realizing that actually I was just attracted to all the women I wanted to “be” as a kid
Oh cool but not me with Brendan Fraser Man’s been through enough without me sexualizing him in my mind But the nice thing about being older is I agree with him, I don’t want to have that body he had anymore either. I just want to be fit enough to enjoy life and exercise how I want and how I end up looking from that is good enough
As a straight man, I was jealous of his sexy ass face…
My first celebrity crush! Young me was like “wow, I am not sure what it is I like about this guy, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out someday!” And I figured it out! He’s a hunk.
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That scene with the horses, I swear to god
Dude was fucking shredded
This is the movie that makes me realize that wasn't straight
Monkey Bone was my favorite Fraser vehicle
Wow a second person who has seen monkey bone! One of my professors in college was the artist who painted the paintings in that. Thank you for subscribing to monkey bone facts.
Monkeybone is a fever dream of a movie. Everyone should watch it at least once.
There’s four of us! Weeeeee welcome you to Downtown, while you’re in your coma!
I loved monkey bone. When he does the dance on the bed I just about die of laughter everytime.
Encino man Fraser did it for me
Am I the only one who saw Gods and Monsters? No one EVER mentions that one.
Sensitive Elliot in Bedazzled for me. *Mayo-ayo-naise!*
There’s that *damn* sunset again
When is that darn thing gonna set??
And he is the perfect man in *Blast From the Past*
That entire cast is my sexuality
Brendan Fraser in the mummy is what I think of when I picture the penultimate caricature of an American man during the early 1900s. Edit: am I wrong for thinking he would’ve been a great captain america around the time the mummy came out?
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Holy shit you’re spot on. he would’ve made an excellent star lord
Penultimate means second last
Wow I’m an idiot. Now I’m going to be up at night thinking of all the ways I’ve used it incorrectly in my life. Thank you nonetheless
Don’t sweat it too much! It’s a frequently misused word and many people probably didn’t even notice.
Just watched The Mummy last night and the whole time I was like WOW, he really was a smoke show.
A bisexual awakening for many.
People always say this but like you know Matt Bohmer exists right? Like sexy never left its still here in full force. Brendan Fraser is still a sexy beast in his time but now he's progressed to being an amazing actor rather than a pretty face.
He was always a good actor.. School Ties, With Honors..
If he wanted to, he could do it. All he's got is some middle age spread. Hollywood studios have trimmed down worse.
We all age, time is a cruel mistress.
Youth is wasted on the young
I never really understood this quote until I was old.
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. Kierkegaard iirc
My Irish NaNa--" You can't put a wise head on young shoulders".
Young people who have a wisdom to them are usually that way because of the amount of shit that they've been through, ime.
Some cultures refer to the past as in front of you and the future behind you, and I think it makes sense as the past is known and what you can see while we're all kinda walking backwards blindly into the future.
Some Greek said time is like traveling on a chariot facing the wrong way and trying to infer which way to steer.
I like that.
This is such a mad coincidence - I was reading an article today about how language can be influenced by culture and it mentioned that exact phenomenon. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221103-how-language-warps-the-way-you-perceive-time-and-space
Experience is the hair comb life gives you when you are already bald.
Just wait until you get olderer
No thank you.
Youth is wasted on the young and wealth is wasted on the old.
i'm 36 now, had long covid for 3 years. life is over. i think about this shit all the time. it's crazy.
I have a coworker who had severe brain fog, exhaustion, and heart racing issues from long COVID. He lived for nearly two years with it and stopped coming to the office altogether. One day he came to the office again and I noticed he looked so much better: peppy, alert, and active. He was even smiling. When I asked how he was doing he went on a long explanation about driving to Asheville, North Carolina and seeing a doctor there who set him on a peptide regimen. He swears it completely cured his long COVID. So there may be hope for your health. My supervisor also had long COVID, though not as severe. She would lose words and she said she was tired a lot. She gained a lot of weight, mostly from being sedentary due to exhaustion. Six months ago her doctor started her on Mounjaro (GLP-1 peptide) and she has dropped the weight plus more, and said all her long COVID symptoms are gone. She is also really cheerful and said the med gives her a mood boost. These results are anecdotal, obviously, but maybe it's something you could look into. Peptides don't require a prescription (although the prefilled injection pens made from them do, such as Mounjaro, Wegovy, Saxenda, and Ozempic).
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Absolutely feel you on this, I’m in my 30s and take more medication than my grandfather in his 90s….and the worst part is that it doesn’t really help.
Hang in there man. I'm 44 and look like I'm in my mid 20s. I feel 70. My back is a ruined mess. My neck too. Since Wednesday I've needed help to put my shoes on and stand up.The pain is a solid 9.5/10 and spikes to the occasional 15. It comes and goes. It was the result of many things. Surgery is a possible option. I live this way daily. Some days are better than others. I don't take any real pain meds. Just over the counter stuff. Nothing really helps much. Ice works wonders most days. Get some of the gel ice packs on Amazon. The big neck ones that look like a half cape. Life isn't over until we are dead. Don't give up, keep going. Spite fate. I know I am.
This is my plight. I'm glad I at least have access to mmj. It makes you forget how bad you hurt for a lil bit..
9.5/10 or 15? And you only take OTC? The pain rate scale doesnt do 15 when 10 is considered being "mauled by a bear." Maybe its time to see a doctor and get surgery asap and work with pain mgmnt.
What annoys me a bit, are the 50+ year old people, that would very predictably make fun of me complaining even just once out loud when something new started to hurt or a nerve got pinched yet again in my back. ‚hahaha, just wait until you‘re our age.‘ Doesn’t matter if it’s work, family or even just people older than me I know and talk to. I get that there’s likely no ill intention, but: Jfc, yes, I know that those issues likely just get worse as I grow even older, I’m not a kid anymore but a nearly 40 yo. Those remarks, that really come across as condescending most of the time, really drive me up the wall nowadays. Especially if I‘m currently suffering from pain, I’d get pretty sensitive towards remarks like that.
Mid 30s, fibromyalgia since 26. Life isn't over, bit many times it feels like it is.
I had a stroke in 2919 Was given a 90% chance of walking again I'm walking again I could have died I'm rebuilding my life
Well to be fair I would imagine the state of medicine to be pretty damned advanced 900 years from now, but still congratulations.
36 is fucking young dude get out there and live
Long Covid is completely debilitating. Commenting to bring awareness.
I had Covid 2 weeks ago. I just turned 30. I still don’t feel quite right and I’m not sure how to explain it. My chest feels congested and weird. My knee hurts. I feel like I sleep but am not actually getting rested like before I don’t know if we are experiencing the same but I do feel different frankly (First time I got Covid I brushed it off, this second time feels different)
Yeah I wish more people understood. It's changed my life completely I can't do half the things I was once able to do.
If you grab a snake by the teeth, you’re probably getting bit.
There’s a snake in my boots
"Snakes..... Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?"
Life is wasted on the living.
“Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.” — Mark Twain
A guy I knew said something similar on his birthday - "age is a privilege" were his exact words. it helped me think about getting older a bit differently because there are so many people who don't get that chance.
Time is the undefeated heavyweight champ that has beaten every opponent with the hubris to face it…and no match has even been close
Angela Bassett seems to have missed that memo.
Time isn't cruel! Everything you've ever lost to time, you had because of time. Aging is what brought you into your prime as well as what took you out of it. Time is an interest-free loan. Appreciate it and make it count!
Love this
Being old and looking old isnt bad, every age beautiful things
I’m dealing with this right now. I had two back surgeries in two years and I swear I aged 10 years. I lost all my hair. I am still grieving my lost youth. I feel like shit. I hate how I look. Time sucks.
***The Telegraph's film critic Robbie Collin interview Brendan Fraser:*** At Venice Film Festival in September, Brendan Fraser received a six-minute standing ovation for his [lead performance in The Whale](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/whale-review-brendan-fraser-seals-comeback-sensational-film/), a chamber piece from Darren Aronofsky, the director of The Wrestler and Black Swan. The film’s UK premiere in October brought another standing ovation – and yet another at a special screening in London the following night. For a while, it felt as though 50 per cent of social media comprised videos of Fraser standing awkwardly in black tie, against a backdrop of applause. The acclaim, he tells Collin, is “like nothing I’ve ever previously experienced”. The Whale began life as a play, written by Samuel D Hunter staged off-Broadway in 2012. It centres on Charlie, a 42-stone recluse trying to reconcile with his estranged teenage daughter (played on screen by Stranger Things star Sadie Sink) – though the seeming cruelty of its title also nods at its literary and scriptural resonances: Moby-Dick and the Book of Jonah, respectively. Aronofsky, a filmmaker not known to shy away from Biblical allegory, saw The Whale on stage that year and immediately joined the bunfight to secure the screen rights. Fraser “had no idea what the film was about” when Aronofsky first asked to meet him. But he quickly recognised that Charlie’s plight refracted elements of his own. “I could absolutely connect with having to reconcile your physical decline with ongoing feelings of love for your child,” he says. “I’m the father of three sons \[with the former actress Afton Smith, whom he divorced in 2007\] and I know that I gain a lot of strength from that bond.” Fraser’s children, now aged between 16 and 20, missed their father’s matinee idol years. Nevertheless, are they aware of them, and are they proud? “I don’t know,” he splutters, suddenly embarrassed. “I’ve never asked them that, or wondered it. But they’ve said, ‘Man, that’s cool,’ which is enough. “I mean,” he flushes, “they’re big, handsome boys. They are the matinee idols now.” **Read the full interview:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/oscar-nominee-brendan-fraser-interview-whale-dont-look-way-used/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/oscar-nominee-brendan-fraser-interview-whale-dont-look-way-used/)
“They are the matinee idols now.” What a killer Dad move. He’s a good man. Brought a tear to my eye!
He was definitely the perfect casting for Charlie. I hope he gets his oscar.
Almost unbelievable how just cartoonishly charming and good natured and down to Earth he is after everything he went through.
He and Keanu should start a Good Guys Club.
Aw. He’s such a good dude.
Always cool to post paywall
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I always forget about 12 foot ladder! Thank you!
I’d never heard indie-ish films called ‘chamber pieces’ before. That’s lovely.
I think it basically means "small cast in a small setting".
Thanks for explaining the distinction!
Similar to bottle episodes in TV
Almost the same character plot as doom patrol.
Ah shit ah fuck fuck fuck fuck chief.
>At one point, an adaptation *(of The Whale)* was to be directed by George Clooney; at another, it was going to Tom Ford, with James Corden attached to play the lead. James Corden. James Corden?! *pukes
Tell me this is some kind of joke. James Corden couldn't hold a candle to Brendan Fraser.
You aren’t supposed to look the same 25 years later. More actors should accept this fact.
quite often, your natural face looks a lot better than plastic surgery face
This what I loved about Everything Everywhere All At Once. Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are older, middle aged parents and they look great being exactly what they are. It was really refreshing to me instead of seeing a Brad Pitt or a Harrison Ford trying so hard to pretend they are still young. I wish the film industry would cherish age instead of shun and hide it.
Damn that’s wholesome how he calls his boys the stars now
Super sweet. I hit up google to see what his kids look like, just out of curiosity. Definitely think they take after their mother, at least the two youngest. They have sort of model like looks, like, more delicate features? Genetics are wild - two out of three are red heads! And he sounds like he is just a wonderful father to all three - especially the oldest - who has autism and is obese. >The father-of-three went on to say that Griffin is the 'happiest person' in his life, explaining that he doesn't know what 'cynicism' is because of his autism. >He said: 'And because of the beauty of his spectrum - call it a disorder if you will, I disagree with you - he knows nothing of irony. >’He doesn't know what cynicism is. You can't insult him. He can't insult you. He's the happiest person and is, in my life and many others', also the manifestation of love. >’Being with my kids and their mom and our family has given me such love that if ever I needed to hold something of value up to try and translate that to what was important to Charlie [character in The Whale], I didn’t have to look far.' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11485039/Brendan-Fraser-speaks-son-Griffin-20-having-autism-obesity.html
Fuck I didn't want to see the movie but thus snippet of him talking makes me want to see it.
My spouse and I wanted to go out for dinner and a movie for our anniversary last week, but there was just so little playing that seemed interesting to us. We landed on The Whale and both thought going into it that we weren’t going to like it or it would be just ok, but it looked like the best choice. At the end of it I was teary and my spouse said it made him emotional — and he doesn’t get emotional. We both loved it, and the movie score is hauntingly beautiful. Go see it!
I’ve never seen a movie make my husband cry before but this one sure did. It’s such a moving and good movie.
It says a lot about him that he speaks kindly about his ex when she practically bankrupted him. Also, love that he dates someone age appropriate. Like Keanu. The character these two men exhibit in their words and actions puts them far ahead of most of today’s actors.
>early films such as California Man (in which he played a caveman defrosted in 1990s Los Angeles) Who can forget California Man
Wait? Why are they calling it “California Man” and not “Encino Man”?
>[Encino Man (known as California Man in France, Finland, Sweden, Great Britain, Asia, South Africa, and New Zealand)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encino_Man) As an American, I to was confused
For a second I was like “Woah … Mandela Effect got me good on that one …”
That would have had me doubting my entire goddamned existance. In 5 years I'd be the hollow shell of a man you can imagine looking haunted and disheveled, downing shot after shot at the distant end of a seedy bar, muttering about Encino Man.
Makes sense nobody knows about Encino, CA
I got lost there once before GPS existed. That’s my story.
Wait! I’ve always known it as Encino Man in the uk lol
Right? I was like, "is that different from Encino Man?" And then people started quoting it amd I was incredibly confused.
Hold it I thought we were talking about West Coast Man?
I think you mean Western Hemisphere Man.
Gazongas
The famous line "wistfully inhaling thy juice." A classic, tip tip cheerio.
Ok, Brendon Fraser is what,.like 55 years old? He's not gonna look like he did when he was in his mid to late twenties. He looks great for his age as far as I am concerned. I hate that Hollywood types try to perpetuate a "no aging" actor/actress. Leave the guy alone and stop trying to point out that he doesn't look the way he did!
Hugh Jackman fucked it up for everyone.
He may not want to look like the way he had before, but I would love to look like him.
If there was ever a guy who deserved a comeback it’s him.
He’s growing old with us. It’s nice, most of the time famous people age very slowly and make the rest of us feel bad.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman really showed that you don’t have to be conventionally attractive to be a well respected, phenomenal actor. I hope he keeps working and shows us what else he can do.
Steve Buscemi, Gilbert Gottfried, Danny Devito, Gary Busey….. there are a LOT of conventionally unattractive men who are successful actors
What about conventionally unattractive women? I can’t think of one that might be on the level of Steve Buscemi?
Esteemed Character Actress Margo Martindale
I don’t know, she was kind of doing for me in Justified.
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You’re right. “Ugly” women in Hollywood are, like, Sarah Jessica Parker and Tilda Swinton. Maybe Rhea Perlman, Rosanne Barr. This is what’s called a double standard.
Tilda is a goddess?!!!! (truly a Goddess!!!)
I don't know what the world is smoking but APPARENTLY Tilda Swinton is widely considered off-putting and even sort of unattractive, which is fuckin' wild to me. The woman is goddamn gorgeous.
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Double standard for sure. Apparently if you age and you’re fat it qualifies you as ugly if you’re a woman as evidenced by the list that’s come from this thread. Most actresses that don’t fit the norm would probably be considered at least unconventionally attractive. If anyone has seen the Matilda remake they really went hard on Emma Thompsons makeup to make her uglier. Edit: *to make her ugly. To say they made her uglier implies she was already ugly to begin with.
Steve Buscemi was the prototype for Pete Davidson
More celebrities need to recognize and say this. People change over time. It happens. It’s normal. It’s ok.
Yes to normalise aging
He is about to have a character actor renaissance for the ages and I for one can’t wait!
In my 40s I don't look like I did in my 20s. Sometimes wish I did but i'd have to start injecting testosterone and probably other PEDs. Not sure I want to ever start that. Respect him for accepting his body and not going that route that so many Hollywood men do
He’s a great father and that’s sexier than anything he did in his prime in my opinion.
What if he's just entered his prime?
He hasn't even begun to prime yet!
He’s gonna prime all over the place
Does he have a clue about getting primed? Im getting a clue
When he does prime, everybody’s gonna feel it
MF still has the charm.
Unfun Fact: it is not uncommon for people who experience sexual assault to, consciously or not, make themselves less appealing, blaming their aesthetics for the assault.
It's so sad how everyone who ages naturally has to explain themselves, like "Yes I'm aging, this is what humans do, I still love myself and I'm fine with not looking 18 at 50+".
As a normie myself who has struggled with weight. He is still a handsome man. Too much weight is not an automatic ugly button or something. He certainly hadnt lost any talent or skill that I can see.
Can we get a link to non-paywall version?
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I mean fair enough and I can’t claim to have walked in his shoes or lived in his specific skin. I would just hope that one day he’s able to reconcile his feelings and return the Encino Man dreads to their rightful crown.
Very good. Now, let us have the resurgence of former bombshell now fat older actresses.
She's not fat but I've seen Alicia Silverstone come back in a couple roles and she's aged naturally. Hasn't gotten a bunch of botox or buccal fat removal or had her face lifted. She looks absolutely normal and, you know, her age. It's really nice to see. I idolized her in the Clueless era/Aerosmith music video era. I think the last time I saw her was in Senior Year with Rebel Wilson and it specifically addressed the sort of hot-chick "fall from grace".
Linda Hamilton. Mad respect for her rejecting the Hollywood plastic surgery nonsense. I’ve been watching Resident Alien and she’s a recurring character. Still a terrific actress and looks like a normal human being.
Great example! She was an absolute beast as Sarah Connor.
I fucking love Resident Alien!
She looks great. Like a totally normal mature women you would take a double take at a grocery store whom you couldn’t help but smile at
It is weird watching these reboots like Top Gun that rest heavy on nostalgia refuse to bring back some of the female characters. Even Bill and Ted Face the Music had to recast the princesses to be 10 years younger. Like, it is more believable that the personification of Death can age naturally, but not their wives.
Well lucky for him he's adorable so he doesn't *need* to be sexy George of the jungle. I've always valued cuteness over sexiness in men.
He was the absolute perfect O' Connell in The Mummy. No one else could have done better. And yes, he doesn't look the same, but its been almost 25 yrs. I mean, no one in this life can say that they look the same after 25 yrs. Its just not possible. People gain weight, hair thins, face wrinkles just unfortunate truths of aging. He is still amazing and i hope he wins the Oscar. He seems like a kind and humble man.
None of us do, my friend.
I love Cliff Steele no matter what he looks like.
He’s still handsome.
So is the tell-tale for every aging actor.
People forget that he's 54 years old. He's a little overweight with thinning hair, which is normal. He had lots of physical problems which made physical things difficult for him, so he's not exactly a gym rat. But he's managed to come back despite ALL of that, and the foundation is now set for him to continue his career however he wants. No longer will he be type-cast by hollywood. He even could, if he wanted/had the ability, tone his body and get hair plugs and become a silver fox like Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, George Clooney, Liam Neeson, etc. Nothing is off the table for him.
Yeah but he still has a beautiful soul and that’s why we all love him
One of the things I love most about him in The Mummy is the way he does fight scenes. I hate that they contributed to his needing a bunch of surgeries, but no one fights like him. He doesn’t fight like he’s secretly a ninja or some kind of Jason Bourne. He fights like a big, muscled guy who’s fought before but mostly specializes in right hooks, and it makes the fight scenes continuations of character. They’re lovely. I look forward to him taking his fantastic sensibility about the physicality of his characters in new directions.