Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley played together in the movie bedazzled in 2000, and the pair recently reunited for an adorable photo at a screening of Fraser’s new movie The whale. Right in the middle of Fraser’s early films, the Harold Ramis-directed comedy received mixed reviews but did fairly well at the box office, and while it will never be remembered as a classic, the couple’s reunion 22 years later is a great one. little trip down memory lane for fans of the movie.
Fraser and Hurley were both present at Darren Aronofsky’s screening in London The whale. After the event, the pair happily posed for photos with each other and certainly caught the attention of the many other stars in attendance. Not only was the moment a delightful snapshot, but it also made for a certain amount of nostalgia to watch Hurley’s sexy devil get her claws into Fraser’s lonely computer geek who happily sells his soul for seven wishes, none of which go quite according to plan.
In real life, however, Fraser is currently doing very well as he has rebuilt his profile in recent years as part of TV series such as Doom Patrol and To trustis now expected to receive more accolades than he knows what to do with it for The Whale, and will also be featured in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon next year.
Brendan Fraser would also have appeared in the canceled Batgirl movie
While there doesn’t seem to be anything stopping Brendan Fraser’s comeback, the cancellation of Warner Bros. Discovery’s batgirl film was a thrill for the actor, who would appear in the film as the villain Firefly. Fraser recently spoke of the film’s “tragic” cancellation, saying he believes the kind of decision-making it took to scrap the film doesn’t help build trust between studios, filmmakers and actors. He said:
“It’s tragic. It doesn’t inspire confidence in filmmakers and the studio. Leslie Grace was fantastic. She is a dynamo, just a perfect performer. Everything we shot was real and exciting and just the antithesis of doing a straight forward digital all green screen. They had fire trucks driving through Glasgow city center at 3am and had flamethrowers. It was a big budget movie, but one that was stripped down to the essentials.”
While the loss of batgirl was a blow to Fraser, who revealed that he never got to see the film, because he “doesn’t eat half-baked cake” and so didn’t watch the rough cut the directors put together, it was certainly nothing more than a blip, and The whale has produced a film that will get him far more attention at a number of awards ceremonies than any superhero role would have. After being out of the spotlight for so long, Fraser’s return has been nothing short of spectacular, and with a few other films already in production, it’s not going to stop anytime soon.