Brendan Fraser Talks Post ‘The Whale’ Pictures ‘Rental Family’ & ‘Pressure’ As Well As Stage Play ‘Grangeville’ – Red Sea Film Festival

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Brendan Fraser have given an update on his upcoming post The Whale films, including Searchlight’s Tokyo-Shot Rental Family, and also revealed he would like to get into producing next, in an onstage conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival. “I finished a film earlier this year in Japan called Rental Family, the director, Hikari… is a Japanese American who has written a story about what it means to have a family as not being the one necessarily that we were born into, but whom we encounter and collect in our lives,” said Fraser. “Rental Family is an absurd sounding, funny title in itself but you can rent just about anything in Tokyo: a hat, a go-kart and a family,” he continued.

The actor plays a long-time Tokyo expat resident, who takes a job at a rental family agency, when he falls on hard times. “It’s in the can now, she’s cutting it, and with good fortune maybe we’ll bring it here,” he said to applause from the mainly local audience in the theater.

Fraser is among a raft of stars attending the fourth edition of the Red Sea Film Festival this year, alongside Michael Douglas, Michelle Yeoh, Catherine Zeta Jones, Eva Longoria, Andrew Garfield, Ranbir Kapoor, Cynthia Erivo, Sarah Jessica Parker and Jeremy Renner.

The actor was quizzed by a Japanese audience member on why he had opted for Rental Family, as one of his first major feature roles after his 2022 Oscar-winning comeback role in The Whale. “Because it was so far removed from anything I’d seen; anywhere I’ve been asked to go and work.