Brendan Fraser is best known for his physical performances in popular comedies like The Mummy and George of The Jungle, but in a recent interview, The Whale star broke down the effect his early career performances had on his body and mind. “I got a little banged up from years of doing my own stunts and needed a surgical fix on the spine and the hinges,” he told The Telegraph.
The actor went on to have a series of surgical procedures including a partial knee replacement to repair his body. “That took a lot out of me.
I knew I would get better, but it took a long time,” he said. Fraser continued to say that in 2007 while shooting a third Mummy movie in China, every morning, he would wake up and put himself “together like a gladiator with muscle tape and ice packs, strapping on this Transformer-like exoskeleton just to get through the scene.” When asked whether he endured such physical pain due to a certain degree of “self-loathing,” he responded: “Absolutely, there was self-loathing.
I think on some level I felt I deserved [a beating] and wanted to be the one who got in the first punch.” Elsewhere during the interview, Fraser discussed his changing physique.
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