"Though, I'm fairly certain Brendan Fraser did realize this was interesting or he wouldn't have said it, but it was the casualness of the way he said it that made it remarkable. Hold the phone, what now? Though, I am also fairly certain Fraser wanted me to ask more because, when I did, he gave that big smile, one that's been gracing movie screens for well over 30 years now,"
"Phillip Vandarploeug, a struggling American actor living in Tokyo - best known for starring in a toothpaste commercial in which he plays a plaque-fighting superhero who rides on a flying toothbrush. He's given an offer to work at a company that rents actors out to perform tasks or functions in a client's daily life. In his first assignment, Phillip is assigned the role of a groom so that a gay woman can secretly marry her actual partner, yet not receive scorn from her conservative family."
Brendan Fraser casually mentions renting a hedgehog, delivering the line with an earnest, childlike smile. He plays Phillip Vandarploeug, a struggling American actor in Tokyo best known for a toothpaste commercial as a plaque-fighting superhero. Phillip accepts work at a company that rents actors to perform roles in clients' daily lives. His assignments include posing as a groom to allow a gay woman to marry without familial scorn, and posing as a father to a young girl, Mia, to present a full family for a strict school board. Mia comes to believe Phillip is her biological father, and they begin forming a bond.
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