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 Brendan Fraser
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime Unlike anytime before in Hollywood, special effects has become very much the center of attention in movies. And more often, many actors find themselves often inadvertently sharing their bill with said effects, one of them being Brendan Fraser. Fraser has made off much of his career playing lunkhead characters in movies like Encino Man, Airheads, George Of The Jungle, and Dudley Do-Right. However, he also has shared his top billing alongside some of the finest Hollywood special effects out there in films like The Mummy series and Monkeybone. Now he has once again emerged to star in what is sure to be some of the finest special effects work in years. It’s a new 3D adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic novel Journey To The Center Of The Earth, in which he plays volcanologist Trevor Anderson. We first asked the now 39 year-old actor to share with us the unique experience of being in a movie that will inarguably redefine the image of the summer blockbuster as a “rollercoaster ride.” “People call movies a roller-coaster ride,” Fraser notes, “This one actually is a rollercoaster ride! It’s hopping right off the face of the screen and you’re a part of and you’re right in the thick of it. It did have that moment right there. It’s funny because putting cameras on the fronts of rollercoasters has been done since the silent films.” “And when the talkies came, they’re like (bellowing in fairly silly narrator voice) ‘Here we are at Coney Island.’” he continues, “And the audiences have always shrieked and screamed with delight when we’ve been able to take the moving image to a place where they just haven’t seen it before and have an audience react to it in a way that they just weren’t expecting.” However, just don’t expect Journey To The Center Of The Earth’s rollercoaster experience to inspire Brendan get on an actual real one. “Personally, a little of them go a long way for me (laughing),” he claims, “I haven’t been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore, I had enough. Watching this film in 3D as far as rollercoasters go really fills it for me.” Unlike the cheesy, gimmick, headache-inducing 3D of the 1950’s and early 1980’s, Journey To The Center Of The Earth is filmed digitally on a two-camera digital process called Real D Cinema. Fraser claims it was the very fact that the movie would be filmed in this style that convinced him to get on board. “I don’t know how many years it was taking in development, before I got on board,” Brendan recalls, “I guess over 100 considering it’s Journey To The Center Of The Earth and Jules Verne wrote the story. Yeah, there’s been subsequent variations that have been put into place before then.” “But I just want you to know that being a wannabe geek myself and techno-nerd, the first time I saw the cover letter that came along the script,” ... |
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