- Brendan Fraser said his diet for the 1997 movie “George of the Jungle” messed with his memory.
- “I was starved for carbs,” he told Adam Sandler in his Variety Actors Discussion on Actors.
- Sandler joked that Fraser was so “excited” about the role that “it made us feel bad about ourselves.”
Brendan Fraser said he was so “starved for carbs” while filming the 1997 comedy “George of the Jungle” that his memory went haywire.
“The whale” The actor recalled his role and diet for 1990s comedy during a conversation with his former “Airheads” co-star. Adam Sandler for Variety Actors About Actors conversation.
The film, which also starred Leslie Mann and John Cleese, was a parody of the Tarzan story and saw Fraser play a man who had been raised by apes after a plane crash left him stranded in an African jungle as a child. baby.
Sandler noted how “hooked” Fraser felt by the role, quipping, “I was really disappointed in how good you looked in it. You weren’t supposed to do that to us.”
“The wardrobe was that there was no wardrobe,” Fraser said in defense of her look in the film. “George eats bananas and swings all day and wears a loincloth.”
Brendan Fraser and Leslie Mann in “George of the Jungle” (1997).
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“You did right for the character, but you did wrong for us, man,” Sandler continued to tease him. “You made us feel bad about ourselves.”
This led Fraser to be very realistic about the realities of achieving his character’s muscular but lean build for the film.
“I was waxed, greased, starved for carbs,” the 54-year-old actor recalled. “He would drive home from work and stop me for something to eat.”
“I needed some cash one day, I went to the ATM and I couldn’t remember my PIN number because my brain was crashing,” he continued.
Fraser then pretended to fly in a rage, telling Sandler that he was “hitting the thing” out of frustration.
“I didn’t eat that night,” he added.
Sandler then noted how “terrible” it is for actors to have to go on a strict diet or exercise regimen for “four months of whatever” to get in shape for a movie role.
They also talked about the actor’s new movie, “The Whale,” which has also seen him undergo a transformation.
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Their conversation then turned to Fraser’s new movie, “The Whale,” in which he plays a man with eating problems. “My heart was broken throughout the entire movie,” Sandler said.
During a recent interview with his old friend Freddie Prinze Jr. For Interview magazine, Fraser opened up about his transformation into an obese and lonely English teacher, Charlie, who struggles to connect with his estranged daughter over the course of the critically acclaimed film.
Fraser said that while he used prosthetics to physically transform into his character, he was also able to get into Charlie’s mindset for a very personal reason.
“I have three children of my own. My oldest son, Griffin, has special needs. He is autistic,” Fraser. told Prince Jr. “He just turned 20. He’s a big kid. He’s six foot five. He’s got big hands and feet, a big body.”
“I intimately understand what it is to be around a person living with obesity,” said the “Mom” Star said.
