Dwayne Johnson praises Brendan Fraser for helping his movie career in The Mummy Returns

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Just over 20 years after one of Brendan Fraser's hit movies The Mummy Returns helped launch Dwayne Johnson's movie career, Johnson is praising Fraser's big comeback movie, The Whale.The 53-year-old Fraser made headlines over the holiday weekend for getting emotional during a six-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival for his upcoming film The Whale from director Darren Aronofsky.The 50-year-old Johnson shared a video of Fraser getting the standing ovation, while commenting on how he helped start his movie career.

Whale: Just over 20 years after one of Brendan Fraser's hit movies The Mummy Returns helped launch Dwayne Johnson's movie career, Johnson is praising Fraser's big comeback movie, The Whale'Man this makes me so happy to see this beautiful ovation for Brendan,' Johnson began in his Twitter post. 'He supported me coming into his Mummy Returns franchise for my first ever role, which kicked off my Hollywood career,' he added.  'Rooting for all your success brother and congrats to my bud Darren Aronofsky,' he concluded, with the hashtag #TheWhale.