Brendan Fraser can joke about it now, but leaving the comedy Airheads to turn himself into a literal airhead for George of the Jungle sounds like kind of a hangry nightmare.
In a conversation with Adam Sandler for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Fraser revealed that he was “starved of carbohydrates” to attain his rope-swinging physique on the set of the 1997 comedy. “I would drive home after work and stop to get something to eat. I needed some cash one day, and I went to the ATM, and I couldn’t remember my PIN number because my brain was misfiring…I didn’t eat that night,” he recalled, acting out his George-like frustration with the machine.
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Sounds about right; humans need food to think. Brains run on calories. Why do you think so many cult leaders starve their followers? Because you can’t put two and two together on a handful of almonds a day.
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