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Brendan Fraser
On the set of Inkheart at Shepperton Studios in England, Brendan Fraser was pulled out of his own scene. He plays a father with the power to bring characters out of the books he reads to his daughter. This leads to trouble when the villain comes out and his wife gets stuck in the fiction.
Set Visit: Brendan Fraser on Inkheart
"I think that it's a good book because for one thing in this age when we have so many different formats of media distribution does anyone read aloud to their kids anymore?" said Fraser. "I hope that they do. I have three small boys and I'm normally reading about shapes and colors right now because they're really small, but we'll graduate to a book like Inkheart, for instance, which his meant to be read aloud. It's a story about a man who has an unusual ability to realize elements of the story that he reads aloud for better or for worse."
That's the logline. Fraser hopes the film will actually drive people back to that other art form. "I think that as a work of literature it's a promotion of and I think it advocates literacy. I think that it's something that can help people connect to one another again, and for that it's gotten immense popularity. That it becomes something that you put on the screen seems to follow naturally. I think that we have a good adaptation and I think that we have a good movie on our hands."
Author Cornelia Funke actually wrote the novel with Fraser in mind, so his casting fulfills her wish too. "That's what she told me. I'm flattered that she said that. Shucks. What can you say?"
Fraser bounces around from family friendly adventures to hard hitting adult fare. In taking another family film, he's not making any bold statements about his career path. "I think that the answer is that I like to work, to be frank. I think that you can make films that have broad appeal and satisfy a commercial appetite and at the same you can do more thoughtful pieces that might please your artistic sense, or you can just get on with it, roll your sleeves up and get to work. Lets be frank, it's difficult to get films made nowadays and personally I've traveled three different continents just to keep myself busy. I'm not complaining, mind you, but the point is that I think with less and less material out there to choose from you must be very selective what you can see and what you can do."
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