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Brendan Fraser<\/a><\/strong> recently revealed how working on his new movie, Rental Family, <\/strong>helped him. The actor, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2022 for The Whale, stars in Rental Family, a comedy-drama feature directed and co-written by Hikari. He portrays Phillip Vandarpleog, an American actor who starts working for a Japanese rental family service while living in Tokyo.<\/p>\n The Mummy<\/a> star candidly spoke about how being involved in Rental Family helped him with his insecurities during a Q&A session at a London screening for the movie.<\/p>\n \u201cI struggle with insecurity, and to make this film, it reminded me that I\u2019m good enough, and I always was all along,\u201d Brendan Fraser explained. \u201cWhy am I giving myself such a hard time? It\u2019s there.\u201d (via Variety<\/a>)<\/p>\n Additionally, the 56-year-old actor praised his co-star, Shannon Gorman, who makes her feature film debut with the film.<\/p>\n According to the official logline for Rental Family, \u201cAn American actor struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese \u2018rental family\u2019 agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients\u2019 worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.\u201d<\/p>\n Besides Fraser, the cast includes Takehiro Hira as Shinji, Mari Yamamoto as Aiko, Shannon Mahina Gorman as Mia Kawasaki, and Akira Emoto as Kikuo Hasegawa.<\/p>\n Hikari, who penned the script of the movie with Stephen Blahut, revealed during the same Q&A that the inspiration behind the movie came from finding similar job listings during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n \u201cMy co-writer Stephen Blahut was randomly looking for a job in Tokyo, and he found a job such as rental family,\u201d the filmmaker detailed. \u201cI\u2019m Japanese. I know nothing about the rental family business.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Hikari, the concept was interesting because it allowed them to explore isolation in the modern context. \u201cPandemic really gave us distance,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s not really much of a connection in between.<\/p>\n Rental Family premiered at this year\u2019s TIFF on September 6, 2025. It will come out in US theaters on November 21, 2025.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Tamal Kundu on ComingSoon.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Branden Fraser Names One Way That Rental Family Helped Him<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brendan Fraser recently revealed how working on his new movie, Rental Family, helped him. 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