Brendan Fraser starved himself for ‘George of the Jungle’: ‘My brain was misfiring’



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Brendan Fraser stated his extremity of attaining the assemblage for the movie caused drastic value nonaccomplishment measures that took a toll connected his intelligence health. Variety

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Actor Brendan Fraser revealed the drastic lengths helium went to successful a hopeless bid to summation his perfect look for his presumption successful “George of the Jungle.”

The actor, 54, spoke to Adam Sandler arsenic a portion of Variety’s “Actors On Actors” collection, successful which helium opened up astir the interaction of ravenous himself astatine immoderate signifier successful the filming of the 1997 movie.

Despite achieving his intent physique, Fraser said the drastic value nonaccomplishment measures took a antagonistic toll connected his intelligence well-being.

“I was waxed. Starved of carbohydrates,” Fraser recalled. “I would thrust home aft paintings and forestall to get immoderate happening to consume.”

“I wished immoderate coins someday, and I went to the ATM, and I couldn’t don't hide my PIN assortment due to the fact that my encephalon go misfiring. Banging connected the factor. I didn’t devour that nighttime time,” helium brought.

Fraser stated it changed into important for him to get a muscular conception for his presumption wrong the movie owed to the information “there has been nary cloth wardrobe” for his individual.

“You weren’t imagined to bash this to us,” Sandler quipped. “You did due by means of the antheral oregon woman. But you did incorrect done us, guy. You made america acquisition unspeakable astir ourselves.”

The deed film, which got a sequel successful 2003, noticed Fraser play George — a idiosyncratic raised by means of apes successful an African jungle. He past falls successful emotion with an American heiress, performed by mode of Leslie Mann, successful the people of her circuit of Uganda.

The movie ended up being a instrumentality bureau destroy, generating $a 100 and eighty cardinal globally with a $55 cardinal finances.

Fraser presently issued an apology for the large tract visitors jam that added automobiles to a full standstill successful San Francisco portion filming a country for the movie.

Fraser said the scene, which triggered chaos wrong the city’s Oakland Bay Bridge, spanning implicit 8.4 miles, acrophobic his idiosyncratic climbing up the span to rescue a parachutist, for which a dummy go used.

But acrophobic onlookers had been caused deliberation it changed into a existent idiosyncratic caught up there, yet inflicting a main traffic jam to instrumentality place.

“Disney placed a mannequin putting by means of a parachute from the uprights. It delivered postulation to a standstill connected either facet of the bridge,” the 50 three-yr-vintage told SFGate. “My trailer became connected the different broadside successful a parking zone. I simply see looking the… Bridge.”