Brendan Fraser

And I thought, you know, I can do this.

But I didn't have to, although I did because I had this misconceived notion that I had to be earning this somehow.

Yeah, a little too hard.

Like, you know, if I wasn't in pain or bleeding, I wasn't working hard enough.

And that's not necessary.

I would caution actors to not do that.

And anyone in any field too.

And it took me being confronted by, you know, a host of like, I won't go into the laundry list of things I had to get sorted out with a surgeon, but it, it took me having to step back from that and say, Hey, you know, you got to protect yourself too, man.

Like,

I did, yeah.

Yeah, I'm pretty bolted together on the inside now.

But the most important thing is I'm out of pain.

I have great mobility.

And with, you know, training and caution, I can still do a version of the things that we did before.

And also, I'm glad to tell a stuntman, hey, you're going to be great in this shot.

And I've already told you, I contend with confidence on a daily basis, but I can remember feeling, being spoken of as if I'm not even in the room.

Absolutely.

Being picked apart by, I don't know, some production or executive as if I was a horse or something like that.

And it made me feel like a walking steak or a piece of meat, I guess.

And I could...