Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cA whole movie,\u201d Fraser said. \u201cThere were four floors of production in Glasgow. I was sneaking into the art department just to geek out.\u201d <\/p>\nHe criticized the industry\u2019s direction: \u201cThe product \u2014 I\u2019m sorry, \u2018content\u2019 \u2014 is being commodified to the extent that it\u2019s more valuable to burn it down and get the insurance on it than to give it a shot in the marketplace.\u201d He also noted the impact on audiences, stating, \u201cThere\u2019s a generation of little girls who don\u2019t have a heroine to look up to and go, \u2018She looks like me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Fraser added, \u201cWith respect, we could blight itself,\u201d expressing concern over the growing influence of financial considerations over storytelling. He linked these issues to broader industry challenges, including the effects of AI and changing business models. \u201cWe\u2019re still chopping our way through the tall grass of AI and all this stuff. The industry needs a real B-12 or something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following his Oscar win for The Whale, Fraser took on the lead role in Rental Family, portraying a failed actor hired to play family roles in people\u2019s lives. \u201cHonestly, I was kind of floating during that whole time without an agent,\u201d he said. \u201cI ended up: What is a rental family? Which dog do you like at the pound? I like the one with four teeth and one tweaky eye.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fraser said acting is \u201cstraight up\u201d a service industry. \u201cService rendered, payment received. Rules and boundaries.\u201d While filming in Tokyo, he visited animal caf\u00e9s, including one where he rented a hedgehog. \u201cThey give you gardening gloves and a ticket for two drinks from the vending machine. You can sit there and play with these sticky guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser recently opened up about the state of the film industry, touching on the abrupt cancellation of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[131175,45895,88,1630,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-305149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-batgirl","9":"tag-brendan-fraser","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-entertainment-news","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}