Brendan Fraser on His Comeback, Disappearance, and the Experience That Nearly Ended His Career

The past is at once familiar and weirdly unfamiliar. If you delve deep enough, you might find that you don’t really know who you ever really were. You’ll also discover the ways in which you’ve never changed, even from the time you were a child, your very own Kid A.

Priorities shift, responsibilities grow, we make choices. I’m as big a culprit as any. I keep moving to new cities, unable to settle. I see photos of my friends’ kids, and they look so old, and I realize how much I’ve missed. I no longer share in all the biggest developments of their lives. Sending a text, making a call, video-chatting, double-tapp

I look at movies the same way. The final movie is the snakeskin, which can be pretty interesting and valuable. The snake is what happens while we’re making the movie—the relationships, the experience. I try to open wide and get really connected with the people I’m working with—the director, the cast, the production crew—all of us cooking in a safe

He poured his heart out in a missive to his little brother, now a respected art dealer himself. He likened himself to a caged bird in spring who feels deeply that it is time for him to do something important but cannot recall what it is, and so “bangs his head against the bars of his cage. And then the cage stays there and the bird is mad with suff

Every now and then—and for many of us more frequently than that—we get hit by a blunter, more explosive force of change. These are the signature events that shape or, more accurately, reshape our lives, often in ways we can’t imagine and with an intensity we can’t control. These are the wolves that upend our fairy tales.