Brendan Fraser Says Making ‘Rental Family’ Helped Him Overcome ‘Struggle With Insecurity’: ‘It Reminded Me That I’m Good Enough, and I Always Was’

Brendan Fraser got vulnerable at a Q&a following a London screening of his new film “Rental Family,” telling the audience that making the project helped him overcome persistent self-doubt.

“I struggle with insecurity, and to make this film, it reminded me that I’m good enough, and I always was all along,” Fraser said. “Why am I giving myself such a hard time? It’s there.”

The comment came at the end of an emotional panel discussion about the film, which has been selected for the Toronto, London and Tokyo Film Festivals. “Rental Family” follows Fraser’s character Philip Vanderplug, an outsider adrift in Tokyo who becomes entwined in Japan’s “rental family” industry, where people hire stand-ins to play relatives or companions.

Director and co-writer Hikari explained that the project emerged from a job listing discovery during the pandemic. “My co-writer Stephen Blahut was randomly looking for a job in Tokyo,…