Three years after his triumphant Oscar win for “The Whale,” Brendan Fraser has found his next deeply personal project in an unlikely place: Tokyo.
In Hikari’s “Rental Family,” Fraser plays Philip, an American actor adrift in Japan who discovers unexpected purpose — and genuine human connection — when he’s hired to play a surrogate family member for people struggling with loneliness.
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The film arrives at a moment when its themes feel particularly urgent. “This film really doesn’t have a declared villain,” Fraser says on the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, settling into a conversation about the project that took him back overseas.
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