@varietymagazine: #BrendanFraser recalls hitting a breaking point in the 2000s where his body began to “fall apart,” realizing he was “trying too hard” to maintain his persona as a physical leading man: “I was feeling like, unless it hurts, then I’m not earning my keep.” “There comes a point where you fall apart. And I guess around 2007 or ’08 or ’09, around there, I was doing a movie in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario — it was a low-budget thing, and we were rolling around in streams and off of mountains, making stuff up as we go along. And I was playing hurt but pretending that I wasn’t. The movie ended and I thought, “I’m getting too old for this shit. It’s starting to catch up with me. If I’m going to continue, I have to have a real reckoning with myself about why I am getting banged around and bruised.” I had to actually ask myself a serious question that I’d been avoiding: Why am I doing this? I had to take ownership of the reason, and that was [that] I was trying too hard.” Watch Variety and @CNN’s #ActorsOnActors now at http://YouTube.com/Variety and on the CNN app.

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