Brendan Fraser on Eisenhower, The Mummy 4, and Chris Farley
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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
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What does Brendan Fraser say about life after winning an Oscar?
I always feel like someone's going to walk in the door and hand me a dish towel and say, Fraser, get back to the... Get out of here. It just, it's in me. Yeah, the third one, it's kind of, it's sort of the problem child. Okay. Which had... the strange elements that the audience were like, you know, you're giving me something that I don't. You're telling me it's one thing and it's not. You got away from what people like.
I hate that. We can't do that. We did it in the other movie. They want to see something new and then it's like, hmm.
You can't reinvent the wheel.
No, you want, if you want to eat an Oreo, you want that cookie.
You want the band to get back together, which is what we are going to do.
And the band is back together.
Yes, we're getting the band back together.
The
fly on the wall aspect of being in the room to see what... Thanks for the pluck.
That's the name of the podcast.
Oh, excellent. That's right.
So, Brendan Fraser, you say it wrong. I say it right. Brendan Fraser. I say it funny because he did a cameo in Dickie Roberts and he knew the director because the director did George of the Jungle, was it? Not Tarzan, George of the Jungle.
George of the Jungle, which was a parody of Tarzan.
Yeah, and he was funny in it and it was a big movie, $100 million movie. And he had done this show before and he was nice enough to say, I have a movie coming out. Can I come on again? We had a good time. The movie is called Pressure. It's about D-Day.
He plays Dwight D. Eisenhower. Yeah, heavy movie. He has to make a decision about the weather.
I'm definitely seeing it because you know more about history than me, Dana, but hearing about it made me want to see it. I like those kind of movies, so... Yeah. Tense. A lot of tension.
It's in the theater.
And then last night, coincidentally, I ran into Pauly Shore at the comedy store and he said, I said, we had Brendan on. I go, Brendan's very soft spoken and very, has a very sweet vibe to him. And I said, was he always like that on Encino Man where he played like. Good question. And he said, he said he was. He even back then. He's very careful how he talks to you. And he's, even on the podcast, he's very quiet. And he's very, we talked after, so did you. Very nice to me. Very nice to you after. So couldn't be a cooler dude. A lot of talent packed in there. Oh, he tried on Farley's coat, by the way. Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And does a little dance in it. Because he saw Chris's coat up from... And he started doing some Chris Farley moves.
Yeah, yeah.
Very fun. Yeah.
This one's interesting. We had him a couple years ago, and it was really about... just his travails in show business. He had injuries and his wilderness years and how he came back and he did the whale. And then we'll talk about what's going on now and that and this new movie and another surprise if you listen to the end, a surprise to me anyway, a happy surprise.
And his post-Oscar life, because before he hadn't won it, I think he was just up for the whale.
Yeah.
Okay, here he is, Brendan Fraser. You got in, there's a room where you got in yesterday. Yeah. And Dana got in yesterday from New York.
I did a one-nighter in New York. Did you come in? I came in, I left at 3.30 at Kennedy, heavy on American Airlines. And so we climbed south for a bit and then, well, you don't need the details. But anyway, the guy came on and said, we just got our weather report. We're going to have two hours and it could get pretty rough. You got it too? Choppy, yeah.
I would rather hear a little choppy than rough.
I didn't think it was bad because I was ready for rock and roll. I was ready for World War II.
Yeah, we will go on the count of three.
Full circle. There's a guy playing a harmonica.
Dennis Miller.
How did Brendan Fraser prepare for his role as Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Dennis used to say, we got a little light chop or dirty air. Those are ways of saying it's going to get bad. But I'd rather hear it tamped down like that. A little bit of dirty air coming up. Dirty air.
Peter Dinklage told me that he said that he is a pilot in his family. And he said that, just to put your mind at ease, that something bad's going to happen.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Brendan Fraser say about life after winning an Oscar?
0:00–3:57
2
How did Brendan Fraser prepare for his role as Dwight D. Eisenhower?
3:57–6:58
3
What insights does Brendan Fraser share about the making of Pressure?
6:58–12:46
4
What challenges did Brendan Fraser face while filming The Mummy 4?
12:46–22:26
5
How does Brendan Fraser reflect on his collaboration with Chris Farley?
22:26–28:38
6
What are Brendan Fraser's thoughts on the reception of The Mummy series?
28:38–40:31
7
What unique stories does Brendan Fraser share about his acting career?
40:31–47:43
8
What future projects does Brendan Fraser discuss in this episode?
47:43–1:07:21