Aimee

Brendan Fraser walked out of a Hollywood luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2003, past a police officer in the lobby, and could not bring himself to say what had just happened to him. He went home and told his wife. He stayed quiet about it for fifteen years. The man who had groped him in that room was the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that ran the Golden Globes. In the years after, Fraser sank into depression, watched the work dry up, and wondered if the silence that followed was a coincidence. His body had its own bill coming. Fraser did most of his own stunts across three Mummy films. By the third one in 2008, he told GQ he was "put together with tape and ice." The surgeries that followed kept him in and out of hospitals for roughly seven years, including back operations, a partial knee replacement, and vocal cord repair. His divorce became final in 2009. A judge ordered him to pay 900,000 dollars a year in alimony plus another 300,000 in child support. By 2013 he was back in court asking to reduce the payments because he no longer earned enough. In November 2016, his mother died of cancer in Seattle after several years of treatment. His eldest son is autistic. Almost none of it made the news. In September 2022, his film The Whale premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The audience clapped for six minutes. Fraser sobbed on the balcony and tried to leave at one point, but the clapping wouldn't stop. In March 2023, at 54, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He thanked his three sons by name. The last years, he said, had felt like "a diving expedition on the bottom of the ocean," and his sons had been the ones holding the air line. Last week, he sat on Jimmy Fallon's couch and said he is training to play Rick O'Connell again. "I'm doing my best to get this 57-year-old gear in shape," he told Fallon. Universal has Mummy 4 penciled in for October 2027. He first played the character at 30, and he'll be 58 when the new one comes out.