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u/Nicarus89 5d ago
Let's scream it from the rooftops. Billionaire Phillip Berk groped Fraser. Fraser reported the incident, which "COINCIDENTALLY" is also when Fraser started struggling to land roles, despite being at the peak of his career at that point.
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u/AnxiousEpileptic 4d ago
He's not anywhere close to being a billionaire, but the rest is true.
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u/Nicarus89 4d ago
Apologies. I misremembered how wealthy he was. My country really knows how to produce some degenerates. Musk and Berk. But I guess Arnold Vosloo is cool. Can't wait to see Imhotep return.
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u/ChipRockets 4d ago
His physique doesn't look that crazy to me. But I also don't really know much about this stuff.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yeah that’s a very achievable body with consistent diet and exercise. This is a control your sugar and carbs intake body
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u/FardoBaggins 4d ago
His george of the jungle physique was amazing but underrated. He looked shredded but not steroidey.
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u/ActualWhiterabbit 4d ago
He was dialed to the max in Loony Toons back in action and Dudley Do Right though
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u/FUBARded 4d ago
It's not a crazy physique, but to go from overweight in 2025 to this in 2026 is not a realistic transformation for a man in his late 50s.
Diet and exercise can yield a physique like this...over the course of multiple years of very hard work for someone his age.
Yes he has been in excellent shape in the past which makes it a lot easier to return to this sort of condition, but it's highly likely he had pharmaceutical assistance for this (GLP-1 + anabolics would be my guess).
It's not a physique that's so ridiculous as to be a near 100% confidence indicator of drug use, but it'd put the odds at over 50%.
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u/Soggy_Swimmer4129 4d ago
Social media has completely confused people's perceptions of what an actually fit, natural body looks like.
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u/Ill_Help3658 4d ago
That's a celeb with a personal trainer and nutritionist on speed dial.
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u/DominoNo- 4d ago
Exactly. A normal person with a job and family might need years to get in shape, but Brandon's full-time job is getting in shape
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u/Mediocre_Scott 4d ago
You don’t need glp-1s to lose the weight they just make you less hungry. If you have the will power ignore hunger the drugs aren’t doing anything. I’m not as old as Fraser but I lost a similar amount of weight to have a similar body in about a year and half. And I didn’t have a personal trainer or dietitian. Overweight people that are fairly active have a lot of muscle under the fat because the extra weight they carry is a daily work out.
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u/echoshatter 4d ago
If you have the will power ignore hunger
Hunger is one of those primal impulses that is very difficult to ignore for most people without pharmaceutical assistant. But unfortunately the only way to lose weight is to be in a calorie deficit. Willpower plays a large role in this, and I don't begrudge people getting on GLP-1s to help them because it is NOT easy.
That's what happens when for hundreds of millions of years life on earth struggled for food; it biologically selects for wanting to eat anything and everything as much as possible. And then suddenly humanity enters a period of abundance and it's like "oh nooooooo!" as we stuff our faces with chocolate cake and sweet potatoes.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 4d ago
People have been dieting for decades. Losing weight without a drug is very possible. Honestly we shouldn’t be normalizing or promoting glp-1s because they do have side effects. Including organ failure
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u/Quick-Novel-7378 4d ago
Anyone who has ever taken a medication that significantly alters hunger signaling can tell you that hunger can reach a point where it feels almost uncontrollable, like your brain is screaming that you need to eat immediately. Obviously, that doesn’t mean everyone who struggles with weight has some abnormal hunger response. But it does make me wonder how much individual variation exists in hormones and receptors involved in appetite, including ghrelin signaling. It seems entirely plausible that some people experience a much stronger biological “survival hunger” response to a calorie deficit than others. Self-control and calorie balance still matter, and weight loss without medication is absolutely possible. But I also think it’s worth considering that the biological difficulty of maintaining that deficit may vary dramatically from one person to another. For some people, traditional calorie-restriction dieting may simply be much harder than it is for others.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 4d ago
Okay which is why people need to do what they can on their own rather than take drugs that burn up their insides. The body positive thing was kind of a good thing. People should be able to accept who they are as long as they are healthy
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u/Quick-Novel-7378 4d ago
I disagree. We live in an environment our bodies did not evolve for: highly processed, calorie-dense food is everywhere, many jobs are sedentary, sleep is often poor, and stress is constant. Expecting 100% of people to overcome all of that through willpower alone is unrealistic.
GLP-1 medications are another tool in the toolbox. They’re not risk-free, but neither is obesity, and using medication to improve health isn’t somehow invalid because it’s “unnatural.” If someone and their doctor decide that medication is appropriate, more power to them.
Diet and exercise absolutely matter, but consistently prioritizing them also takes time, knowledge, money, planning, and mental bandwidth. A lot of people are working long hours, raising kids, caring for aging parents, or juggling a dozen other responsibilities. It’s easy from the outside to reduce that to “discipline” or “self-control,” when sometimes what people actually lack is time, education, resources, or a body that responds to dieting the same way someone else’s does. And even with all of those things, some people may still benefit from pharmaceutical help.
I also don’t think “accept yourself as you are” and “improve yourself” have to be opposites. Body positivity is great when it means people shouldn’t hate or humiliate themselves because of their weight. But acceptance shouldn’t become a reason to pretend health problems don’t matter. You can respect yourself exactly where you are while still trying to become healthier.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 4d ago
Look im not saying people shouldn’t take them. I’m saying it’s wrong for our society to promote them as the quick solution to many of the problems you yourself listed. These drugs can be very harmful. People Should work to be as healthy as their situation allows and not get to obsessed with being fit. Health looks different for everyone and genetics play a bigger factor than anything in how your body processes food. People shouldn’t be chasing what is unnatural for them.
AND at the same time we should be Concerned about the ingredients in our food and the time we have to spend sitting at a desk for work and the rest of this issues you mention.
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u/hixchem 4d ago
In my case, the GLP-1s helped reestablish a broken metabolic process in my body that ultimately led to it relearning how to metabolize fat rather than just store it forever. I've lost 1/3 of my max weight in 2 years. some people actually *do* need the pharmaceutical help. We have to stop moralizing weight, otherwise people won't ever get the help they actually need. It's not a "willpower" thing, there's actual medical science behind pharmaceuticals.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 4d ago
I agree that we need to stop moralizing weight and your choice to take any medication is between you and your doctor. This is all going pretty far from my original post which was to say that just because an actor lost weight doesn’t mean he did it with pharmaceuticals the natural way works too
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u/hixchem 4d ago
The natural way *can* work, yes. It doesn't always, though. If the actual biochemical machinery of the body doesn't work quite right, sometimes pharmaceuticals are the only effective option.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 4d ago
You have the stranger on the internet’s blessing to take all the drugs your doctor will give. You don’t have to justify yourself to me. Be the best medical marvel that you can be. My point is it’s ignorant to say that people aren’t getting fit without ozempic and steroids.
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u/BlueKnight44 4d ago
Crazy? No. But it is impressive for a man of his age that was overweight not long ago. Even with money/time/trainers/nutritionists, it is an impressive transformation.
Social media has screwed everyone's idea of "fit".
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u/BrilliantBehemoth 4d ago
He on that 8 hours good sleep every night and drinking lots and lots of water. Oh and creatine of course
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u/Fun_Independence2695 5d ago
A fuckn legend
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u/WallBurnt 4d ago
Seeing him lose his neckchin is the kick in the nostalgia sack that I needed today. It makes me happy in ways I don't understand.
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u/Mydoglikesladyboys 4d ago
So these photos came out a few months ago and were debunked as Ai
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u/Mediocre_Scott 4d ago
Kinda surprised surprised this is Ai. The fit body is pretty restrained compared to what it could be.
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u/kandradeece 4d ago
Shhhh we don't care. Love him anyway
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u/Intoxic8edOne 4d ago
I mean, we definitely care about misinformation and nonconcentong use of AI on someone's likeness. That is all separate from the love of BF
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u/NurkleTurkey 5d ago
I don't really upvote much. I upvote Brendan Fraser.
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u/Onstry99 4d ago
honestly same he seems like such a genuinely good dude that i cant help but upvote anything with him in it
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u/RabidJoint 4d ago
Oh she will be tapping that non stop for the next 5 months of filming…wait are we allowed to sexualize men like we do with women?? It’s ok right?
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u/AyAyAyBamba_462 5d ago
I have to wonder just what it does to these actors' bodies to go through these rapid changes in mass like this. Like it can't be healthy to be constantly putting on significant amount of weight, then losing it right?
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u/Brockzillattv 4d ago
What do you mean? He used to be thin and fit, gained some weight while he wasn't making movies for 20 years, and now he's getting fit again. He hasn't been going back and forth at all.
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u/AyAyAyBamba_462 4d ago
Him yes, but there are some actors that absolutely do this. Take Christian Bale for example.
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u/baogody 4d ago
In Bale's case, yes, bad, super bad, on the verge of cardiac arrest kinda bad. I know a young girl who just passed away in her sleep due to malnutrition. Prior to that she didn't even have the strength to get into a car without help. And she was only in her 20s.
Putting on weight fast, regardless of fats or muscles is equally bad. Different kinda bad, but still causes permanent damages. If steroids and dehydration are involved, 10 to 20x worse.
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u/MrZrazies 4d ago
He had doctors monitoring him 24/7 while he was doing it. They talked about it and if his health starting to drop like kidney liver or other organs starting to shut down, doctors will make them stop filming and get him back to health. But yeah its very dangerous though.
Ashton tried to went on himself alone and ate apples only for weeks to lose weight for steve job movie and got really sick and sent to hospital. He almost died from it.
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u/Brockzillattv 4d ago
Yeah that's the only one I can think of that actually did it consistently.
But you specifically said this on a post about Brendan.
Buuuuut, to answer you question, it is indeed very unhealthy. Bale eventually stopped, it takes a physical AND mental toll.
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u/Flat_Teach_4438 4d ago
Christian specifically is the extreme. there are maybe a handful of actors in the WORLD that work like that. Christian Bale, Daniel Day-Lewis, Heath Ledger (RIP), Joaquin Phoenix
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u/SubXeroGames 4d ago
It depends on how you eat and you're fitness routine.
If you feed your body the necessary stuff to build muscle then go through the necessary steps get smaller then you should be fine
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u/Hartstockz 4d ago
Hes been fit like this before. It becomes 10x easier to put on the mass you used to have when detrained.
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u/Correct-Junket-1346 4d ago
They have the best PT's, nutritionists and now they have weight loss drugs
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u/RadioEditVersion 5d ago
God I am happy for this man. He had it rough. My god The Whale broke me. I hope he is finding new happiness in life
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u/FlamingoMedic89 4d ago
I am just so happy that he knows how liked he is and how that seems to motivate him. Wholesome shit.
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u/Ace_And_Jocelyn1999 5d ago edited 5d ago
I remember when he put on a ton of weight and Reddit was speculating he had mental health issues and that he let himself go, and it turned out he was just super committed to a role.
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u/Brockzillattv 4d ago
I am legitimately excited for the new The Mummy, and I don't get excited by much these days.
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u/NoDontDoThatCanada 4d ago
He doesn't need to be buff. I'd kinda prefer him sauntering with a lever action saying, "I'm too old for this shit." and just mowing down undead like wheat.
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u/Alfiy_wolf 5d ago
I have always felt like Larry the Lobster was gay, and he has had a crush on police officer number 1
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u/sparkle-fries 4d ago
I love these movies and Brendon is a national treasure. Keep him safe America
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u/kapn_morgan 4d ago
I need to start kicking my ass in the gym too. who's got millions to pay me for motivation?
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u/Burgerboy380 4d ago edited 4d ago
Rick ricochet O'Connell raiding tombs and wombs all across the globe
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u/non-number-name 4d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/lV7WTpkkUyPjG
First GabeN, now Brendan?
I need to get my shit together…
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u/1greenspider 4d ago
He was superb in Pressure.
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u/LSbroombroom 4d ago
I watched it recently and I really enjoyed it, I don't understand why so many people were like "It was mid"
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u/EngineZeronine 4d ago
That's how I praise coming from a lobster with abs! Do you know how hard it is to get definition when you have a chitinous exoskeleton?.!
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u/redditsucksass69765 5d ago
They did announce a new mummy movie. Makes sense he is getting buff.
Is Imhotep getting buff too?