{"id":2003496,"date":"2025-09-07T06:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2003496"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:06:37","slug":"rental-family-review-hiring-actors-to-play-relatives-would-be-weird-enough-without-brendan-fraser-being-one-of-the-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rental-family-review-hiring-actors-to-play-relatives-would-be-weird-enough-without-brendan-fraser-being-one-of-the-options\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rental Family\u2019 Review: Hiring Actors to Play Relatives Would Be Weird Enough Without Brendan Fraser Being One of the Options"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Six years ago, the inimitable Werner Herzog<\/a> made \u201cFamily Romance, LLC,\u201d an odd pseudo-documentary about a Japanese service that specialized in hiring actors to play a loved one, colleague or potential suitor \u2014 whatever the client required. The company was real (or inspired by one profiled in The New Yorker), but the examples were not. Need someone to absorb your wife\u2019s anger over that extramarital affair without inconveniencing your mistress? Just ask Rental Family to send a proxy. Trying to fool your once-famous father into thinking he hasn\u2019t been forgotten? Rental Family can send a \u201creporter\u201d over to interview him.<\/p>\n

Maybe Herzog<\/a> isn\u2019t so inimitable after all, for Japanese director Hikari<\/a> (best known for \u201cBeef<\/a>\u201d) has made a film in which Brendan Fraser<\/a> embodies an American actor struggling to get by in Tokyo. His character, Phillip Vandarpleog, reluctantly agrees to work for the eponymous company, accepting a gig…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six years ago, the inimitable Werner Herzog made \u201cFamily Romance, LLC,\u201d an odd pseudo-documentary about a Japanese service that specialized in hiring actors to play a loved one, colleague or potential suitor \u2014 whatever the client required. The company was real (or inspired by one profiled in The New Yorker), but the examples were not. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2003497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2003496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Rental-Family-Review-Hiring-Actors-to-Play-Relatives-Would-Be.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}