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The Mummy Returns costars Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson reunited for Variety ’s 2025 “Actors on Actors” series

Fraser credited Johnson as a "godfather of sorts" to the success of The Whale for the actor's show of support on social media at the time

Johnson said Fraser's emotional response to The Whale 's standing ovation inspired him to make The Smashing Machine

Brendan Fraser worked with Dwayne Johnson on the former WWE star’s first film role. Two decades later, Fraser took home his first Oscar — thanks in part, he says, to Johnson’s support.

Fraser, 57, and Johnson, 53, first crossed paths while working on The Mummy Returns , the 2001 sequel to The Mummy and the wrestler’s first movie. Reuniting for Variety ’s 2025 “Actors on Actors” series, t

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