Speaking to The Independent last year, Daniel Stephen, host of The Brendan Fraser Podcast, identified both the GQ article and 2017’s disastrous reboot of The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise, as triggers for the internet’s Fraser resurgence.
It’s the kind of career apogee that The Mummy star probably wouldn’t have believed possible for much of the last 20 years.
Over the course of the last two decades, Fraser has been largely MIA, confined, as my colleague aptly put it, to a Google search: What ever happened to Brendan Fraser?
“I look at myself then and I just see a walking steak,” Fraser said in a 2018 GQ profile.