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What Happened to Brendan Fraser? My Wife NEEDS to know!!!

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I’ve learned that if I am watching a movie with my wife, and the movie has Brendan Fraser in it, my wife will ask me what happened to Brendan Fraser. I’ve told her before; it’s not sufficient. She needs a better answer, demands it.

For many of us, “What happened to Brendan Fraser?” is a question that periodically comes up, and will keep coming up no matter how many times we’ve read that one GQ article that explains what happened to Brendan Fraser. It will never be enough; we will never be satisfied, not until we get to go back in time, inhabit Brendan Fraser’s consciousness, and watch the events of Brendan Fraser’s life play out through Brendan Fraser’s eyes. And even then, it just. won’t. add. up.

“What happened to Brendan Fraser?” Jen asked two months ago when we watched The Mummy Returns.

“What happened to Brendan Fraser!” she implored two days ago when we watched George of the Jungle.

Olive, our two-year-old, was enjoying that movie for the monkeys and the lions, but now she wanted to know why her mom was disparaging the nice man on TV, so I got out my phone and showed her a recent picture of Brendan Fraser wearing a cowboy hat. Olive began to sob and demanded we turn off the film. I tried to explain to her that Brendan Fraser is okay, he just went through a lot of stuff and really likes horses now, but…