Brendan Fraser Confirms The Mummy Is Returning, Talks Riding Revenge of The Mummy to Prepare

0:00 -Welcome back.

0:01 They love you.

0:02 We love you.

0:03 -Thank you, Jimmy.

0:05 -Come on, bud, thanks for coming back on the show.

0:07 We always love when you're here.

0:08 We just had Mick Jagger out here.

0:10 -I saw.

0:10 -Yeah.

0:11 It's fun.

0:11 Are you a big Rolling Stones fan?

0:13 -When he had a concert in— I was in grade eight, living in Seattle.

0:17 I wasn't allowed to go because I was at parochial school.

0:20 But, you know, rock 'n' roll was scary and bad.

0:23 -Yeah.

0:23 -And I'm happy that I almost met him.

0:26 -Yeah, yeah.

0:27 Yeah.

0:28 It counts.

0:29 That counts as a concert.

0:30 Yeah.

0:31 Applause] Last time you were on the show, by the way,

0:34 you're always a great guest, and we love having you on here.

0:37 You did a sketch with us where you played Gilvin of the Tree.

0:40 -Yes.

0:41 -And I was Goat Leg Greg.

0:43 And, um, and here's— here's Brendan in the— You were in a nest.

0:48 Laughter] -Yes.

0:49 -You were in a bird's nest and you would play the flute or the lute.

0:53 -It was the lute, right?

0:55 Yes.

0:55 -I think, yeah, it was a lute.

0:56 Yeah.

0:56 And you had these great teeth in there.

0:58 And I just remember them.

0:59 They didn't really fit right.

1:00 They kept falling out and it was, gosh, you just ran with it like a pro.

1:04 And I really appreciate that.

1:05 -Actually, I think I swallowed them.

1:07 Laughter] -I think you might have.

1:09 We need them back.

1:10 Yeah.

1:10 They're expensive.

1:11 But here's what I love about this.

1:13 Ten days after this sketch, you won an Oscar.

1:16 Cheers and applause] Come on, bud.

1:21 That's 10 days after.

1:24 That's why we love you.

1:25 That's why we love you.

1:27 -Dignity.

1:28 -Dignity.

1:29 -Always dignity.

1:30 -Always.

1:31 Yeah.

1:31 Everyone was so excited when you won.

1:33 What's going through your mind when you— when you heard your name?

1:37 -I was astonished.

1:37 I didn't know what to expect.

1:39 I know me and all the other guys were

1:42 just waiting for them to just say anyone's name.

1:45 It was like a piano wire of tension, you know?

1:47 -Does it feel like a long time?

1:49 -You run a gauntlet doing that.

1:51 -Oh, yeah.

1:51 -You know, a press tour, that kind of thing.

1:53 -And do you remember what you said?

1:54 I know you thanked...

1:56 -I know that I got to thank everyone I did.

1:57 I had a fancy speech in my pocket.

1:59 I forgot everything, and I guess I made it backstage and I kind of got lost.

2:05 And, um, it's funny.

2:07 I know you're surrounded by people, but they said, "No,

2:09 you go from stage left to stage right." And I was

2:11 going behind the scrim and suddenly there were no people there.

2:14 And I'm looking at this gold naked man holding a sword.

2:18 -Yeah, yeah, yeah.

2:19 Laughter] -And then Jimmy Kimmel comes walking by.

2:24 He goes, "Hey, you did great." I'm like,

2:27 "What just happened?" And he kind of just went...

2:29 -Yeah.

2:30 -"You're up." And he kept going.

2:32 I made it out after we did a bunch of press and then the street— -Did you leave?

2:37 -Well, the streets were all locked down

2:39 around Hollywood Boulevard when you do the Oscars.

2:42 And it's funny, you know, all this glitz and glam.

2:45 And then behind the Kodak Theatre,

2:48 we were looking for the golf cart or some sort

2:50 of a vehicle to get us wherever we were supposed to go next.

2:53 And the streets are all locked down and there

2:56 are people behind wire fences and they're like, "Brendan!" I'm like,

3:00 "This is my Oscar."[ Laughter] And then

3:02 I started— I started recognizing the streets.

3:05 Like I was like, "Oh, wow.

3:06 I think that's the alleyway that I once shot

3:10 a video with Tone Loc for the movie 'Encino Man.'" -Wow!

3:15 -I'm serious.

3:16 And— -Did you think it was like a "this is your life" moment?

3:20 -Well, he contributed this song.

3:22 It was called— I think it was "Cool Hand Loc." Went on the soundtrack.

3:26 -Wow.

3:26 -And for the life of me, I've been AI Google, Google, all this stuff.

3:30 I can't find this video.

3:31 -"Cool Hand Loc"?

3:32 -"Cool Hand Loc." I was drag racing with Tone Loc.

3:35 -Wow!

3:36 -In an alleyway.

3:37 -And it was— -And I beat him too.

3:38 And he had the fancy car.

3:40 And he kept getting mad at me because I had, like,

3:42 the souped-up-looking red convertible

3:44 with the power-shifting buttons in the front.

3:46 I don't know.

3:47 It was a very altered experience...

3:49 -Yeah, that sounds surreal to me, yeah, to be holding an Oscar.

3:50 -...to win an Oscar, let me tell you.

3:52 That's what happened blow by blow.

3:54 -But I mean, man, you were great in "The Whale."

3:56 And you had— Sadie Sink was your daughter in the film, and she's fantastic.

4:00 -She's fantastic.

4:00 -We love— -And right now she is playing the part she was born to.

4:06 It was written by William Shakespeare.

4:07 She's on the West End.

4:08 -That's right.

4:08 -Right now as Juliet.

4:10 -That's right.

4:10 She's doing "Romeo and Juliet." Good for— Sadie, we love you.

4:14 Cheers and applause] Well,

4:16 there's some pretty big news that's kind of breaking the Internet regarding you.

4:20 People are saying that you're getting another "Mummy" film back together.

4:24 Is this true?

4:24 Are you doing another?

4:25 -Yes.

4:26 -You are doing it?

4:28 Cheers and applause] -What do we know about it so far?

4:35 Is there anything you're allowed to tell or...?

4:37 -Well, we're going to get the band back together.

4:39 -Yes.

4:39 -The only way to do it.

4:40 Right?

4:41 -Yeah.

4:41 Of course.

4:42 -So we're going to give the audience what they have

4:46 been bothering all of us for for the last 20-whatever years.

4:49 -Did you ever think they were going to do this or...?

4:51 -I was hopeful for a long while, and then I was like,

4:54 no, I don't know if they are, you know.

4:56 Other "Mummy" movies got made and— But anyway, look,

4:59 what we're going to do is saddle back up, go back to the locations.

5:05 I should probably stop talking like this...

5:07 -Okay.

5:07 Alright.

5:07 Okay.

5:07 Yeah.

5:07 -...before I give anything away.

5:08 However, I know that— Please wish me luck.

5:11 I'm doing my best to get this 57-year-old gear in shape.

5:16 -Oh, my God.

5:16 You're going to be—[ Cheers and applause] You know how to do it, bud.

5:19 You know how to do it.

5:20 I cannot wait.

5:21 I heard that to get you in character

5:24 for the role that Universal took you to your ride.

5:28 You have a ride, The Mummy ride at Universal Studios.

5:31 Here you are.

5:33 And look at that.

5:34 -Can you spot me?

5:35 Laughter] -So you are there.

5:37 -This is right as the guy goes, "Don't wear your hat.

5:39 It'll get blown off." -Yeah.

5:41 It's one of the best rides, by the way.

5:43 Every time I go to Universal, I make sure to go on this ride.

5:47 I always take my kids on it.

5:48 I go, "This is the best ride" because there's a surprise in the ride.

5:52 I don't want to spoil it for anybody, but I have a ride as well.

5:54 -You do?

5:56 -Yeah.

5:56 -And I haven't been on it yet.

5:57 Um...

5:59 Laughter] I'd like to.

6:01 Perhaps.

6:01 -You haven't been on it yet?

6:03 -I have not been on it.

6:03 -Well, you have to go on it.

6:04 -I know I do.

6:05 -It's the most fun.

6:06 You're going to really love it.

6:07 -I'll be there.

6:08 -Yeah, you— -Count on it.

6:09 -You can wear your hat on my ride.

6:11 -Thank you.

6:11 -But I just love that— I just love that you went on this.

6:13 It's one of the best rides ever.

6:14 This is crusher.

6:15 Already it's happening.

6:16 "The Mummy" is coming back.

6:17 I cannot wait to see it.

6:19 Cheers and applause] But we're here to talk about your new

6:24 film called "Pressure." In this film, you play Dwight D.

6:27 Eisenhower during World War II.

6:29 It's a true story about a huge part of the war.

6:33 And it came down to one guy, the weatherman.

6:36 -I didn't know that the premise of this movie was that in 1944,

6:41 on Monday, June 5th, that was D-Day originally.

6:45 And inbound weather was awful.

6:48 Troops would not have been able to land

6:50 safely if they were not already under peril, which clearly they were,

6:54 but for a boulder in the stream type of performance from Andrew Scott,

7:00 let me tell you— He played a meteorologist

7:04 who came forward and told the Joint Chiefs

7:08 of Staff that weekend before that they needed

7:10 to delay or else there would have been absolute disaster.

7:15 And so this is the weekend before D-Day

7:18 and all of the conversations that take place.

7:20 Now, we all know that D-Day was Tuesday, June 6, 1944,

7:26 and that was because they had delayed for about 14 hours,

7:32 16 hours to land in Operation Overlord

7:37 in Normandy with 100 and some— 130,000 troops.

7:41 And they did so safely by taking advantage of a gap in the weather.

7:47 -Really?

7:48 -Yeah.

7:48 Of some, I don't know, like 12 or 14 hours.

7:51 And that's when those troops went.

7:53 Otherwise they would have had to wait until

7:56 the 18th when the moon had changed cycles.

7:59 The tides would have risen differently.

8:01 And clearly the enemy would have known they were on their way.

8:06 But as it turns out,

8:07 the enemy thought they'd be crazy to attack in weather like this.

8:10 But Eisenhower said,

8:12 "We're going on the advice of this meteorologist." And when he was asked about

8:17 it 20 years later in an interview

8:21 remembering D-Day by Walter Cronkite on the beaches,

8:25 he asked, you know, "How did you do it?" And Ike Eisenhower said,

8:30 "Well, we just had better weathermen than the Germans did." -Wow!

8:35 Laughter] Did you ever think that you would play Eisenhower?

8:38 -No, no, I didn't.

8:40 When Anthony Maras, our director, contacted me,

8:43 I was like— I didn't know anything about this.

8:47 History hadn't really taught me that.

8:48 And I was like, "Me, really?

8:51 I don't really look like Ike Eisenhower." I mean, I can...

8:54 Mimics electric clippers] -Yeah.

8:55 -Which is a lot of fun.

8:57 But he sent me a photo of myself alongside Dwight Eisenhower,

9:02 and I went, "Oh, okay." -I can see it.

9:05 This is you next to a picture of...

9:08 Not bad.

9:09 That's fantastic.

9:10 Cheers and applause] Doesn't even look like you.

9:13 It's amazing.

9:14 I want to show everyone a clip.

9:16 Here's Brendan Fraser in "Pressure." Take a look.

9:20 -Even I can see that Krick's anti-cyclone is

9:25 on the move because it's right here on the goddamn map.

9:34 Now, our final meeting is at 0400 hours.

9:38 And that will be the absolute last opportunity to change anything.

9:44 So unless you can prove these storms are inbound,

9:48 we invade as planned— Monday, June 5th, 0630 hours.

9:57 -Yes, sir.

9:59 -Three hours, gentlemen.

10:01 -Come on.

10:03 Brendan Fraser.

10:04 "Pressure" is in theaters May 29th.

10:07 We'll be right back, everybody.