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By: Showbiz Updated 15 Aug 2022, 9: 03 am EDT
The actor Brendan Fraser has made headlines recently after the movie she was to star in, “Batgirl”, was unexpectedly canceled despite having finished filming. In the film he plays the villain Firefly, as well as Michael Keaton as Batman and the actress from Leslie Grace as Batgirl.
Fraser began to appear less on the big screen from 2010 and moved away from the performance in 2014, which prompting murmurs of concern on social media about his reasons for temporarily leaving the profession.
Best known for playing Rick O’Connell on the trilogy of tapes of “The mommy” and for leading roles in comedy movies a and fantasy, Fraser has had a long career in action films. But why did the actor take a break and why is he now a trend? These are the reasons.
What has he starred in?
Fraser made his film debut as a sailor bound for Vietnam in the movie “Dogfight” of 1991. His first starring role was the following year in the comedy “Encino Man”
, giving life to a frozen prehistoric caveman. He also played David Greene in “School ties”, along with Matt Damon and Chris O’Donnell.
His first big box office success was the comedy film “George of the jungle”
from 1997, and then came the movies from adventures “The mummy” (1999) and its sequel “ The mummy returns” (2001). He also received high praise starring opposite Michael Caine in the political drama “The quiet american” (2002). Fraser is known for his roles in “The air that I breath” (2007) and in “Journey to the center of the earth” (2008). However, after 2014, he began to accept fewer roles as an actor and to star in some lesser-known films.
What happened?
After acting successively in successful roles, the sudden pause of the actor did not go unnoticed. There are several reasons for his decision to take a break. In 2018 revealed to GQ magazine that he had to take a break due to the chronic pain he was experiencing from all the stunts he had done in his movies. He had to undergo several surgeries, including a partial knee replacement and many operations on his back.
This forced him to stay away from action movies for a while.
Later, Brendan revealed that he was sexually assaulted by a Hollywood executive. In 2003, during an event organized by the Golden Globe and Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Fraser was allegedly touched inappropriately by Philip Berk, former president of the HFPA. The actor recounted: “His left hand went around me, grabbed my butt, and one of his fingers touched my crotch. I felt bad. I felt like a small child. I felt like I had a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry.”
Fraser explained that he distanced himself from Hollywood after these events and that he felt that the association had also turned its back on him. “I don’t know if this caused the discontent of the group, of the HFPA. But the silence was deafening,” he assured. Berk, for his part, wrote in his memoirs: “His career declined through no fault of my own.”
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