Why Hollywood Won't Cast Brendan Fraser

May 2024 ยท 1 minute read

When the getting is good, there's no business like show business, but if and when the Hollywood freeze-out process does begin, it can be pretty hard to thaw out a career, and it's even harder to stop the financial bleed that comes with professional injury. Brendan Fraser has paid, quite literally, for all his former movie star glory.

Fraser and actress Afton Smith, with whom he has three sons, wed in 1998, announced their divorce in 2007, and reached a settlement for alimony and child support in 2009. However, the situation turned publicly ugly between them in 2013 when, as his career momentum slowed, Fraser petitioned for a reduction of his reported $900,000 a year payment schedule to Smith. She claimed he'd hidden funds and future film deals at the time of their settlement, but Fraser reasoned that he expected to make no money whatsoever (as in zero dollars) in the future and would be relying on the assets he'd earned prior to the petition for payments, due to unspecific medical issues which affected his workflow.

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