Brendan Fraser on significant reunion with Leonardo DiCaprio

It’s been nice to see Brendan Fraser return to our screens, and one of many actor’s upcoming initiatives finds him starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Whereas the pair haven’t truly labored collectively earlier than, their reunion on set was a particular one for Fraser.

Whereas talking with GQ, Brendan Fraser spoke of reuniting with Leonardo DiCaprio on Killers of the Flower Moon many years after their first transient encounter. Fraser had seen a screening of What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape on the Paramount lot and needed DiCaprio to understand how nice he was within the film.

When he was I feel in all probability all of, I don’t know, 17, 16 possibly, he did Gilbert Grape. I noticed it on the Paramount lot. I feel I had simply been in Faculty Ties or one thing then, and I used to be, like, flummoxed however I simply needed to inform him, Hear, hear. That was unbelievable.

After they reunited on the set of Killers of the Flower Moon, Brendan Fraser stated that Leonardo DiCaprio remembered their first assembly all these years in the past. “He repeated that to me,” Fraser stated. “He remembered me. He stated: You had been the one man who didn’t deal with me like somewhat child. He volunteered that to me. That was significant.” Fraser is enjoying a defence lawyer within the film, which additionally stars Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, John Lithgow, Lily Gladstone, Tantoo Cardinal, and extra.

Based mostly on David Grann’s best-selling crime thriller, Killers of the Flower Moon will inform the true-life thriller story of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma within the Nineteen Twenties who turned fairly rich after oil was found beneath their land. Then, one after the other, the Osage started to be killed off, and the following spiral of conspiracy, greed and homicide acquired so unhealthy that the FBI needed to step in. The film was as soon as anticipated to be launched in time for Oscar season this yr however was pushed again to 2023, with a debut on the Cannes Movie Competition a risk. Brendan Fraser will subsequent be seen in The Whale, which can hit theaters on December ninth.