Brendan Fraser says that the role of hunger for the role of cinema caused memory loss
"I did not remember my pin number because my brain lacked," the actor revealed.
While Hollywood youth and beauty standards for women are more frequently discussed, the last years have seen several male stars, including Channing Tatum and Kumail Nanjiani , speaking of their own problems achieving unsustainable, unrealistic and even dangerous bodily objectives for certain roles. The last to become real of the cost of a physique on the big impeccable screen is Brendan Fraser , which tackled one of his most popular films of the 1990s and how preparation had an impact on his brain health in a conversation with Air co-star Adam Sandler for Variety "The" actors on the actors ". Read the continuation to find out what he said about the disturbing side effect he noticed after having made an extreme weight loss trip for the film.
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Fraser played in the 1997 comedy George of the jungle .
After making his cinema debut with Dog fighting In 1991, Fraser went to a series of comic and dramatic parts. Some of its most memorable first roles include 1992 Glued Man and School links and 1994 Honors and Air . In 1997, he played the titular character in George of the jungle , a live adaptation of the popular animated series of the 1960s. He played with Leslie Mann ,, Church Thomas Haden , and John Cleese , who expressed the brother of George's gorilla, Ape.
He had to significantly change his habits to get his George of the jungle body.
In 2020, Fraser, who made memorable appearances in the television series Brushwood , was a guest on the stars of the sitcom Zach Braff and Donald Faison's podcast, False doctors, real friends . When the subject of his George of the jungle The muscles came, Fraser has described unpleasant things He had to do to get the right look. "Go back in time and eat only, like broccoli and polystyrene foam," he said. "Lift weights until you fly, then go wash your mouth and keep doing it." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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"Sampeating" himself led to memory problems.
Talk to Sandler for Variety , the 54 -year -old star did his best again to resolve the physical transformation he suffered to play George.
"You did well by the character. But you did harm by us, guy," joked Sandler about himself and their peers actors. "You made us feel bad about our skin. Was you oiled at all during George ? ""
"I was waxed," said Fraser. "Standed by carbohydrates. I went home after work and would stop to eat something. I needed a little money one day, and I went to the thing. I did not eat this night. "
Healthline reports that "some research suggests that undernourishment (not sufficiently eating) could negatively affect cognitive function, resulting in symptoms Like the brain fog . ""
His action roles have also wreaked havoc on his body.
In 2018 Gq interview, Fraser reflects On his action of action, which includes three films in The Mummy Franchise, and opened the way in which the cascade work had ravaged his body.
"As I did the third Mummy Image in China, "he said," I was assembled with adhesive tape and ice-just, like really cheesy and favorite on ice packs. Downhill-Montagne ice cream packs and pads, because they are small and light and can adapt under your clothes. I was building an exoskeleton for me daily. ""
He had Laminectomy (A procedure "which creates space by eliminating bone spurs and tissues associated with arthritis of the spine", according to the Mayo clinic) and a replacement of the knee, among other surgeries.
"It's really going to be a little saccharin for you," he told the publication. "But I felt like the horse of Farm animal , whose work was to work, work and work. [George Orwell wrote a character who was, I think, the proletariat. He worked for the good of the whole, he did not ask any questions, he had no problems before he kills him. ... I don't know if I was sent to the Glue factory, but I felt like I had to rebuild [explanive] that I built which was overthrown and redo it for the good of everyone. Whether it hurts you or not. ""
He obtained an Oscar buzz for playing a man of 600 pounds.
Fraser was absent from Hollywood for a while, not only of these physical health problems but also family problems and the consequences of alleged sexual assault by the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Philip Berk in 2003. (Berk denied the accusation of Fraser.) Now he receives critical raves and the Oscar buzz for his main role in The whale , playing a 600 pound teacher seeking to improve his relationship with his daughter ( Sadie Sink ) before dying.
While some criticized the use of Prostheses in the film To make the actor much larger, Fraser said to Sandler in their Variety conversation he came from to the character of a place of respect.
"It is important to say it because there are those who live with this disease," he said. "I felt authorized to be their voice and to be as honest as possible and as authentic as possible in the representation. Look, my weight was everywhere on the map. I put weight to play this role, and this n 'was not "t enough - so the body had to go in addition to that, and the two worked together. ""
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