The actor recalled an alarming moment at an ATM that made him realize what he had put his body through.
, who is experiencing a career renaissance for his portrayal of a 600-pound man in “The Whale,” recently recalled starving himself to play the ripped lead in 1997’s “George of the Jungle.”in a Variety Actors on Actors segment posted Tuesday. “I would drive home after work and stop to get something to eat. I needed some cash one day, and I went to the ATM, and I couldn’t remember my PIN number because my brain was misfiring. Grrrr! Banging on the thing. I didn’t eat that night.
Fraser suggested he had no choice, given he had to wear essentially a loan cloth as a man raised by apes. “The wardrobe was that there was no wardrobe,” he said.six-minute standing ovationFraser told Sandler that although he appreciated the talk of a comeback, “I was never that far away.”“I knew that I would have to make a statement of sorts,” Fraser said. “I’d have to reinvent myself.”
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