ZingB

Brendan Fraser & Matt Damon Fully NUDE

Brendan Fraser Says He and Matt Damon Were FULLY NUDE for School Ties Shower Scene: 'It Was Scary'

"It was scary. It's scary to do that," Fraser told Howard Stern. "And when you're an actor and you're starting off, you're ambitious and game for pretty much anything. They say, 'Jump,' and you say, 'How high?' "

He continued, "I appreciated that this isn't really for wow or a scintillating factor of going, 'Hey, look at that. Naked people.' The point of it was is that when Damon's character says what he says about David, he just reveals who he is."

Fraser was new to Hollywood when he landed the role in his early 20s, and said he was still getting used to its nuances — so much so that when he was asked to "test" for then-Paramount Pictures CEO Sherry Lansing before he was offered the job, he told Stern, 69, he had no idea what that meant.

"In my naivete I thought it was, like, an exam or something like that," he said.

But similar to breaking through in Hollywood, Fraser said his character in the movie just wanted to fit in.

"In this case, David wanted to be a part of this school," he said. "He wanted the camaraderie, he wanted the glory that sport brought him. But it came at a cost, and the barrier was that he was Jewish, and their anti-Semitism kept him out."

He added, "So for all that need of wanting to belong, I identified with that because I felt like I want to be a part of this Hollywood also." "His anti-Semitism and his prejudice is stripped down naked, and it's ugly," Fraser added. "And the door is locked and they fight over it like shaved apes that need to be pulled apart because they've run out of things to say to one another, and it just turns into an ugly knuckle-dusting fit."

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7pa3TmqOorZ6csm%2BvzqZmraCimq6le5Jra2toaW6Gbq7RnqWdmZ5is7Ot0p6pZqWRqcFusMCmpqdllqq5rcWMp6ydnQ%3D%3D

Lorie Orum

Update: 2024-05-18