{"id":440357,"date":"2026-05-09T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440357\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:22:10","slug":"brendan-fraser-doing-my-best-brendan-fraser-on-prepping-for-the-mummy-4-and-getting-the-band-back-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440357\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser: \u2018Doing my best\u2019: Brendan Fraser on prepping for \u2018The Mummy 4\u2019 and getting \u2018the band back together\u2019 |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u2018Doing Brendan Fraser<\/a> is best known for his role in the \u2018The Mummy\u2019 franchise. Now, as the old cast is working up to prep for \u2018The Mummy 4\u2019, Fraser is all about getting back into tip-top shape to take on the role of Rick O\u2019Connell. In a recent interview, the famed star opened up about how the preparation for the 4th film is going and how things have been working out for him.<\/p>\n

Brendan Fraser on training for \u2018The Mummy 4\u2019<\/p>\n

Fraser recently joined Jimmy Fallon on \u2018The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u2019 where he opened up about his upcoming project. Revealing that he has been training to get back in shape for the film, Fraser commented that he has been trying to do his best to prep for this. \u201cDoing my best\u201d, Fraser added while also sharing that the film was happening after a very long time of uncertainty.Further on, he also shared that he had been wondering for quite some time whether the project would come to fruition or not. \u201cI was hopeful for a long while, and then I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if they are.\u2019 Then other Mummy movies got made. But listen, what we\u2019re going to do is saddle back up, go back to the locations\u2014I should probably stop talking like this, because I don\u2019t want to give everything away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who all are going to return for \u2018The Mummy 4′?<\/p>\n

Talking about \u2018The Mummy 4\u2019, Fraser also commented that they are getting \u201cthe band back together\u201d for the new film. He also added that \u201cThe only way to do it. So, we are going to give the audience what they have been bothering all of us for, for the last twenty-whatever years.\u201dIn an interview with The Associated Press last year, Fraser had talked about how the film was a long time coming, and opened up about how the film that he wanted to make never happened earlier on. He further explained, \u201cBut the one I wanted to make is forthcoming. And I\u2019ve been waiting 20 years for this call. Sometimes it was loud; sometimes it was a faint telegraph. Now? It\u2019s time to give the fans what they want.\u201dAs of right now, Fraser and Rachel Weisz<\/a> have been confirmed to reprise their roles for the new film. Weisz was replaced by actress Maria Bello in the third film (\u2018Tomb of the Dragon Emperor\u2019) because of scheduling conflicts and other commitments and was last seen in her role in \u2018The Mummy Returns.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser is best known for his role in the \u2018The Mummy\u2019 franchise. Now, as the old cast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5932,191822,93,61,60,270,191821,85556,191820],"class_list":["post-440357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-brendan-fraser","tag-cast-reunion","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-rick-oconnell","tag-the-mummy-4","tag-the-mummy-franchise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}