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- All right, we are back with Brendan Fraser!
Okay, you've been in so many iconic movies.
I would love for you to share some fun facts
about them that we've never heard before.
Are you ready to play the game?
- Yes. - It's, "Behind the Scenes"!
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Okay, fly on the wall moment,
first thing that comes to your mind,
something we didn't know, "Encino Man"!
Yes!
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- Linkavitch Chomofsky or Encino Man, also known as,
was played in the director's reel to get a green light
to make the movie by none other than Ben Stiller.
- What?
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That's the good stuff I'm talking about! That's so fun!
Okay. "School Ties."
- I think that it was a film that came out
at an important time in American history.
It was released when there were people taking
to the streets in outrage for clear good reason
in Los Angeles because of the discord
that comes from how we don't get along with one another,
and this film was an example of what happens
when we have less understanding and more open communication.
It's a film that it calls out prejudice
in the form of anti-Semitism.
It did a lot of work for the time that it came out
because of it being set in the 50s,
and we had a sense of, you know,
remove from the 1990s to the 1950s,
and we could ask ourselves, "Well, that was then.
This is not now," but the truth there are social issues
that are happening now, and it gave us an example
of how we need to learn to get along with one another.
- Yes, it's as important now as it was then,
and thank you for making it.
It's such a beloved movie. It is so important.
All right, pivot in genre. We're gonna go to Airheads"!
I mean, come on!
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- Fact, I don't play the guitar.
I don't think Adam played the drums.
I think Steve could get by on bass pretty well.
So when I told this to Michael Lehmann,
"I'm not a musician," he goes, "That's fine.
None of those guys are anyway."
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So he gave me the job. (laughs)
- And yet Adam went on to make lots of records.
He's on tour right now selling out
like 80,000-people stadiums. - I know, right?
- So, you know, I guess, I mean, just, oh my God.
But I loved this time. I loved this movie so much.
It's so good. Okay, "George of the Jungle."
I mean, come on!
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- What do you wanna know? (laughs)
- Like, how long did it take
to get comfortable in a loin cloth?
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- I never really did, to be honest.
I was kinda naked. - Was it like body makeup?
You know? - Yes, I was spray painted
like I was in an autobody shop every morning,
a guy with the rebreather on, and look,
it was broad comedy, great fun to do,
based on a J. Ward property that was "George of the Jungle"
in the 70s and the 60s was kinda like "The Simpsons"
of its time, is it delivers subversive humor in a way
that you weren't expecting to get a message across
but doing it in the guise of comedy.
And so that set the tone for, you know,
a broad comedy like this to make sense that a guy
that lives in the jungle and has a dog
that's actually an elephant (laughs) is entertainment.
- Don't you think it's funny that,
when you're being airbrushed,
the guy has like the gas mask on,
but you're just standing there?
- Yeah! - You're like.
- And now there's a person there like, like,
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and that's the coordinator.
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- I know. Thank you.
Oka, I mean, a franchise of, you know,
establishing what everyone got hungry for, "The Mummy"!
"The Mummy"!
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- We had no idea if this film was a horror film,
a comedy film, a straight ahead action film,
a romance, an epic, and then just decide, "Well, all of it!
Let them decide," and I guess they liked it.
- I would say so.
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- We used to have a genre called caper,
and a technology ruined the caper
because now you could just call and be like,
"Run for your life, they're coming for you."
Instead, we had to like get to the thing to save it.
But you could have action, you could have adventure,
you could have comedy, you could have romance,
and you could have terror and horror.
- And it wasn't in front of a piece of green cloth.
- Exactly. I never could succeed at that.
- You went to the place. - If I had to act
to a tennis ball, I would fail miserably.
- I'm really good at it. - You are?
- I happen to be really good at it. You know why?
Because in "The Mummy Returns,"
Dwayne the Rock Johnson was just a piece of tape on a stick.
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When I did "Looney Tunes: Back in Action"-
- The funnest. - Thank you.
There was a Daffy Duck puppeted by Bruce LaNoil,
and it helped so much for your eye lines.
You don't have that.
I'm looking at a piece of tape on a tennis ball.
You can interact with one another, which made perfect sense,
and also, I have bragging rights
to having worked at Daffy Duck properly in the flesh.
And by the way,
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Daffy is a real jerk, I'm telling you.
- Well, you know, he-
- I mean, Bugs, on the other hand, he's the iceman,
seriously. - I love Bugs.
- I'm tight with Bugs, you know?
- Dude, I raised my- - He really is a good guy.
People go, "What's he really like?"
No, seriously, he's a good guy.
- I raised my kids on "Looney Tunes,"
and I feel very strongly- - That's what made me
want to act.
I think everything you need to know about acting,
you can find a lesson for in a Warner Brothers cartoon,
particularly by Tex Avery. - Okay. Thank you, Brendan.
"The Whale" is in theaters right now. We'll be back.
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