{"id":1763656,"date":"2022-12-05T15:33:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763656"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:34:02","slug":"airheads-co-star-has-nothing-but-praise-for-brendan-fraser-as-both-generate-oscar-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/airheads-co-star-has-nothing-but-praise-for-brendan-fraser-as-both-generate-oscar-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Airheads\u2019 Co-Star Has Nothing But Praise For Brendan Fraser As Both Generate Oscar Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fairheads-co-star-has-nothing-but-praise-for-brendan-fraser-as-both-generate-oscar-buzz%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/my-bad-it-wont-happen-again-hollywood-actor-apologizes-to-san-francisco-for-25-year-old-movie-stunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brendan Fraser<\/a> has been the talk of Tinsel Town since the release of his latest film \u201cThe Whale\u201d \u2014 and according to his \u201cAirheads\u201d co-star and friend <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/its-only-painful-to-say-out-loud-adam-sandler-gives-update-after-hip-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Sandler<\/a>, it couldn\u2019t be happening to a nicer guy.<\/p>\n<p>Sandler, who recently took home a Performer Tribute Award at the Gotham Awards, is also generating Oscar buzz around his latest Netflix offering, \u201cHustle.\u201d But when asked about Fraser at a press event for the basketball dramedy, the comedian had nothing but the <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/adam-sandler-praises-brendan-fraser-the-whale\/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&#038;utm_content=movies&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_term=638cb97b3cb3cc0001013c26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest praise<\/a> for his former co-star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just so smart, such a deep guy, and he\u2019s such a loving sweetheart. We\u2019ve been talking a lot lately and I couldn\u2019t be happier for him,\u201d Sandler said of his friend. \u201cHis performance, I saw [\u2018The Whale\u2019], is ridiculous. He\u2019s always been great, he\u2019s always been as deep as it gets. When we were doing \u2018Airheads,\u2019 he was on a different trip than all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirheads,\u201d released in 1994, featured Fraser and Sandler \u2014 along with actor Steve Buscemi \u2014 as bandmates who inadvertently create a hostage situation at a radio station. Armed with water pistols full of hot sauce, they interrupt a broadcast and demand that an insolent deejay (Joe Mantegna) play their demo tape on the air.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">TIRED OF THE LEGACY MEDIA\u2019S BIAS CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AND OBSCURING THE TRUTH? JOIN US AND SAVE 30%.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leesmovieinfo.net\/title.php?t=5563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bombed<\/a> \u2014 raking in negative reviews and less than $6 million at the box office \u2014 but Sandler said that Fraser had been so fully committed to the role that he wasn\u2019t the least bit surprised to see the arc his career followed afterward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really took [\u2018Airheads\u2019] serious, he took everything about the full growth of his character and his look and what each line meant. He was never messing around. The fact that he got to make \u2018The Whale,\u2019 and a bunch of great movies over the years, but the fact that it\u2019s at such a great crescendo for him right now is not a shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Whale\u201d marks a comeback of sorts for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/brendan-fraser-dons-a-fatsuit-in-the-whale-for-his-big-hollywood-comeback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fraser<\/a>, who spent some time away from the spotlight after years of doing his own stunt work took a toll on him physically. Fraser also made headlines in 2018 when he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/actor-brendan-fraser-alleges-former-hollywood-frank-camp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a>\u00a0former Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Philip Berk of touching him inappropriately years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt ill. I felt like a little kid. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry,\u201d Fraser said, recounting the incident and noting that he had essentially disappeared from Hollywood life in that aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Brendan Fraser has been the talk of Tinsel Town since the release of his latest film \u201cThe Whale\u201d \u2014 and according to his \u201cAirheads\u201d co-star and friend Adam Sandler, it couldn\u2019t be happening to a nicer guy. Sandler, who recently took home a Performer Tribute Award at the Gotham Awards, is also generating Oscar &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1763659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}