I Was Surprised At How Awesome 'Rental Family' Turned Out, And Brendan Fraser And Co. Told Me Why They Felt The Same Way

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Rental Family has quickly risen up high among my favorites of the year. Not only is it the latest movie to come out of the “Brenaissance” following Brendan Fraser's win at the 2023 Oscars for The Whale, it has a powerful message that has stuck with me since I got to watch the movie a month ago. The Rental Family cast told CinemaBlend about why it’s a real career highlight for each of them as well.  The movie has Fraser playing a struggling actor named Philip living in Tokyo, Japan who takes a job for a “rental family” service where he’s hired to play real roles in people’s lives. (And as it turns out, this is an actual service you can seek out in Japan!)

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00:00there's been a moment for each of you where you realize one of your projects had a greater meaning

00:03to people gosh since that was my line i guess i'll go first um

00:12completely mercenary here but i'd say it's rental family i think this is a guy who finds that he

00:20had all these doubts and he really is enough and always was all along and the journey that he takes

00:28means that he needs to go through several incarnations in roles he plays as an actor

00:35in the lives of other people but the make-believe performative aspect of that melts away when

00:44the connections that he's making are are are real um this is a movie that's been getting

00:53a response from it from everyone who sees it yeah that is varied it's a little bit different but

00:59they all feel like they have connected somehow in a meaningful way just in the same way that the

01:06clients in the world of this film connect with the providers i think for me i'm also going to say

01:13rental

01:13family because very personal like reasons because i first read the script when i had just lost my dad

01:20so it was so impactful reading it just it gave me so much hope in a really dark time and

01:27having

01:27finished the project and talking to people who have seen it um i had i've had like really tender

01:33conversations with people who um say that it probably resonates so like differently for people who have

01:41lost people close to them you know and um that meant so much to me because that's what i felt

01:47you know

01:47it gave me hope when i first felt that way so hearing that it's doing the same for people who

01:52see it

01:53means a lot to me yeah and for me i guess um i don't really think about you know if

02:00i'm helping

02:01people when i but um i guess you know seeing the end product you know like this one you know

02:08it resonated

02:08people you know across the board and just amazing how it can affect you know people and so i guess

02:16the

02:17people and you know that it's a grander family for me that's a grander family for me that's a grander

02:18family for me too

02:18you

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