Rachel Weisz recently congratulated Brendan Fraser on his big win at the Oscars last month.
The actress, 52, who starred alongside Fraser in 1999’s The Mummy and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns, told Extra that she texted the actor, 54, after he won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in The Whale.
Rachel, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for The Constant Gardener, said, “I’m so happy for Brendan. Very happy.
“I texted after his win. I texted him after I saw the performance. It was an astonishingly good film.’
Rachel, who shares son Henry, 16, with her ex and The Whale director Darren Aronofsky, added: ‘I’m really, really happy for him… that he’s had this new chapter. And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer, nicer man.”
‘I’m really happy for him’: Rachel Weisz recently congratulated Brendan Fraser on his big win at the Oscars last month
The actress played Evelyn in The Mummy franchise, while Brendan was her on-screen husband Rick.
Right now, Brendan is enjoying the slipstream of his amazing comeback, including an Oscar win for The Whale last month.
Helmed by Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, The Whale starred Brendan as a wheelchair-bound gay man who weighs 600 pounds.
The film, which was released four days before Christmas 2022, was greeted with a deluge of acclaim, including a Best Actor Oscar for Brendan.
‘Thank you thank you. So this is what the multiverse looks like,” he joked in his Academy Awards acceptance speech.
‘Oh dear. I thank the Academy for this honor and for our studio A24 for making such a daring film. And – I’m grateful to Darren for giving me a creative lifeline and dragging me aboard the good ship The Whale,” he said.
“I started in this business 30 years ago, and things — they didn’t come to me easily, but there was a facility that I didn’t … I didn’t appreciate it at the time until it stopped.”
The sizzling sensation expressed its gratitude “for this recognition, because it wasn’t possible without my cast.”
Pals: The actress, 52, who starred alongside Fraser in 1999’s The Mummy and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns, told Extra that she texted the actor, 54, after he won the Best Actor Oscar for his performing at The Whale
Throwback: The actress played Evelyn in The Mummy franchise, while Brendan was her on-screen husband Rick (pictured in 1999)
Brendan added: “It’s like I’ve been on a diving expedition at the bottom of the ocean and the air on the line to the surface is on a launch that’s been watched over by some of the people in my life, like my sons, Holden and Leland and Griffin. I love you.’
Although Brendan attended the Academy Awards, he made headlines for his refusal to attend the Golden Globes.
He claimed a few years ago that his career had “withered on a vine” after he was groped in 2003 by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the organization behind the Golden Globes.
Philip, 90, who was expelled from the HFPA in 2021 after emailing members an article calling Black Lives Matter a “racist hate group,” has disputed Brendan’s account.
During an interview with GQ late last year, Brendan announced that he “will not be competing” at the Golden Globes in January.
“I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” he said.
Details: Helmed by Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, The Whale starred Brendan as a wheelchair-bound gay man who weighs 600 pounds
He attributed his decision to “the history I have with them. And my mother didn’t raise a hypocrite. You can call me anything, but not that.’
Brendan claimed that when he presented his accusation to the HFPA, “I knew they were going to close ranks. I knew they’d kick the can in the road.”
The George Of The Jungle star added, “I knew they were going to get ahead of the story. I knew I certainly had no future with that system as it was.’
He continued to attend the Golden Globes after 2003 and was still in the audience at the 2010 ceremony when Philip was still president of the HFPA.