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Is it a coincidence that Brendan Fraser<\/a> plays a struggling actor in his new movie?\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Rental Family<\/a> <\/em>(in theaters now), from writer-director Hikari<\/a>, stars Fraser, 56, as an American actor working odd jobs in Tokyo, Japan. As the 2023 Best Actor Oscar winner<\/a> joked to the Associated Press<\/a> in a recent interview, the role may have served as a reminder: \u201cDon\u2019t get too comfortable. It can happen to me.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \u201cI struggle with confidence,\u201d Fraser admitted. \u201cI always have the feeling of not being good enough. Believe me, no one can be harder on me than me. No critic, no pithy internet comment can be more biting to me than myself in my private thoughts.\u201d\n<\/p>\n That\u2019s despite making a lauded comeback for his Oscar-winning performance in The Whale<\/a><\/em>. \u201cI grapple with overcoming that,\u201d said the actor, recalling one of the two times he hosted Saturday Night Live<\/em>. Producer Lorne Michaels, he recalled, told him, \u201c\u2018You know, it\u2019s all about confidence.\u2019 I don\u2019t know if that psyched me up or not.\u201d\n<\/p>\n <\/span> He added: \u201cForget everything you know and just own it. Can you do that is the question, the eternal one.\u201d<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n Did becoming an Oscar winner change Fraser? \u201cHonestly, I was kind of floating during that whole time without an agent,\u201d he said. \u201cI was looking for that unicorn project that hadn\u2019t been made into oblivion. I 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\n<\/p>\n Hikari, the filmmaker behind Rental Family<\/em>, \u201cgave me the opportunity to kind of dovetail from whatever happens in the vacuum after you experience a recognition like that,\u201d he recalled. \u201cIt was a moment of: I guess things are going to be a little different going forward.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Retreating from Hollywood for a gig that required immersing himself<\/a> in Japanese culture, Fraser added, \u201cwas personally what I needed. I wanted to remove myself from whatever this place is, just for a while.\u201d\n<\/p>\n <\/span> Among Fraser’s upcoming roles are Dwight D. Eisenhower in war drama Pressure<\/em> and a return to The Mummy <\/em>movies<\/a>. Of reuniting with Rachel Weisz<\/a> in Universal Pictures\u2019 monster franchise, Fraser teased to AP, \u201cthe one I wanted to make is forthcoming. And I\u2019ve been waiting 20 years for this call\u2026 It\u2019s time to give the fans what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n Rental Family<\/em>, costarring Mari Yamamoto, Takehiro Hira, Shannon Mahina Gorman and Akira Emoto, is in theaters now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NEED TO KNOW Brendan Fraser leads the new movie Rental Family, from filmmaker Hikari He accepted the role of a struggling actor after himself winning an Academy Award \u201cI struggle with confidence,\u201d Fraser admitted in a candid new interview Is it a coincidence that Brendan Fraser plays a struggling actor in his new movie?\u00a0 Rental … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Brendan-Fraser-Admits-He-Struggles-with-Confidence-Even-After-His.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12093,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12091\/revisions\/12093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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