Brendan Fraser has spent a lifetime facing one particularly biting critic: himself.

The Oscar winner acknowledges he still struggles with self-confidence.

“I always have the feeling of not being good enough,” the 57-year-old actor says. “Believe me, no one can be harder on me than me.

“The flip side is something that Lorne Michaels told me years ago. He said, ‘Confidence is the key to everything.’”

Fraser’s latest film is a tender drama directed and co-written by Japanese filmmaker Hikari. Not so coincidentally, it explores what it means to belong to oneself and to others.

In “Rental Family,” now in theaters, Fraser stars as Phillip Vanderploeg, a sweet but struggling performer lost in Tokyo and doing odd jobs. He finds work with the Rental Family Agency, where actors are booked to pl

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