Brendan Fraser took Japanese language classes for his new film Rental Family<\/p>\n
Brendan Fraser learnt Japanese for his new movie Rental Family.<\/p>\n
The Mummy star, 56, plays an actor working in Tokyo for a rental family service \u2013 a business which allows people to hire actors to pose as relatives or companions – and he’s revealed he spent time in the city ahead of the shoot so he could immerse himself in Japanese culture.<\/p>\n
In a behind-the-scenes video, Brendan explained: “I love the aspect of making discoveries … I took the time to come in early enough to feel like I had my own Tokyo story to tell. I spent enough time wandering the streets with my pocket translator trying to talk to anybody …<\/p>\n
“[It was] was one of the most eye-opening experiences I\u2019ve had in my career.”<\/p>\n
The film’s writer\/director Hikari went on to reveal the actor took classes to learn Japanese for the role. She said: “Brendan speaks a lot of Japanese in this movie.<\/p>\n
“He was like: \u2018I\u2019m in.\u2019 So he took classes three or four times a week.”<\/p>\n
It comes after the actor admitted making the movie helped him confront long-held feelings of insecurity.<\/p>\n
Describing the project as a turning point in his relationship with his own self-belief, the Oscar-winning actor opened up during a question and answer session in London following a screening of the film.<\/p>\n
Brendan told the audience: \u201cI struggle with insecurity, and to make this film, it reminded me that I\u2019m good enough, and I always was all along. Why am I giving myself such a hard time? It\u2019s there.”<\/p>\n
Hikari went on to explain the story grew from an unexpected discovery during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cMy co-writer Stephen Blahut was randomly looking for a job in Tokyo, and he found a job such as rental family.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m Japanese. I know nothing about the rental family business.”<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cPandemic really gave us distance. There\u2019s not really much of a connection in between.”<\/p>\n
Takehiro Kira, who plays a workaholic struggling with loneliness in the movie, said his performance drew on personal memories of isolation.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI went to the States when I was 15, and I spent many days, and Christmas nights, sitting all by myself in the room, like Philip [Brendan’s charcter] was sitting on the bed. When I saw the film for the first time, that was a scene that made me cry.”<\/p>\n
Rental Family is due for release in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser took Japanese language classes for his new film Rental Family Brendan Fraser learnt Japanese for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[251,784,156,788,782,409,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,787,255],"class_list":["post-142693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}