Fraser is a veteran of effects-heavy films
�The audience doesn�t want to see anybody�s homework,� Fraser says.
There�s a quiet, dreamy tone to Brendan Fraser�s remarks, as if he�s not quite present in this hotel room where he�s sprawled on a sofa. Long, tiring day on the publicity trail?
Could be. The 39-year-old American-born actor of Canadian descent, who spent four years as a teenager at Upper Canada College � the unpleasant aspects of which gave him material for his role as a prep school student in the 1992 movie School Ties � is promoting not only a movie, but a technology.
He stars in Journey To The Center Of The Earth, a 3-D movie adaptation of the 1864 sci-fi classic by Jules Verne. It opens July 11.
It�s the kind of effects-heavy movie Fraser is familiar with. In his 1999 hit, The Mummy, he engaged in furious sword fights with mummies onscreen. During the filming, Fraser slashed away in front of a blue screen. The CGI folks put in the mummies afterward.
�In my case, I prefer to have no one there,� Fraser says. �It�s easier for me. You can swing away with your sword without worrying about running through a stunt man. The CGI people can then do what they do. The audience doesn�t want to see anybody�s homework.�
In the same way, Fraser is perfectly comfortable with pretending to be running from a vicious predator in this latest movie, even though nothing�s behind him.
They don�t give Oscars to this kind of acting, but Fraser doesn�t mind. Ever since he came to Los Angeles in 1991, Fraser has accepted without hesitation the roles that have fallen to his lot.
�I�m like most actors,� Fraser says. �They don�t idle well. They like to work. I know I�m one of those types, too. I�ve had some very good fortune in the last 15 years or so in terms of being able to work, and I guess being in this kind of big-budget picture � allows for some leeway to work on projects that are a little more hand-picked.�
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