Brendan Fraser revealed the real story behind the shower fight scene

• In their 1992 film School Ties, Matt Damon and Brendan Fraser had a fight in the shower.
• The 54-year-old Whale star stated that they were both completely naked when they got into a physical altercation.
• “Fraser joked about the conflicting accounts of how long the applause has lasted during the reception on Late Night with Seth Meyers last month.

In their 1992 film School Ties, Matt Damon and Brendan Fraser had a fight in the shower. Now, Fraser is telling the real tale behind it.

The 54-year-old Whale star stated that they were both completely naked when they got into a physical altercation in the drama film’s crucial scene where Damon’s Charlie Dillon informs the football team that David Greene, portrayed by Fraser, is Jewish.

“It spooked me. It’s a scary thing to do, “Stewart was informed by Fraser. “Additionally, when you first start out as an actor, you are ambitious and open to doing anything. When they tell you to jump, you respond with “How high?”

He continued, “I appreciated that this isn’t really for wow or a scintillating factor of going, ‘Hey, look at that. Naked people.’ The point of it was is that when Damon’s character says what he says about David, he just reveals who he is.”

“His anti-Semitism and his prejudice is stripped down naked, and it’s ugly,” Fraser added. “And the door is locked and they fight over it like shaved apes that need to be pulled apart because they’ve run out of things to say to one another, and it just turns into an ugly knuckle-dusting fit.”

When he was invited to “test” for then-Paramount Pictures CEO Sherry Lansing before he was offered the job, Fraser, who was fresh to Hollywood when he earned the role in his early 20s, admitted to Stern, 69, that he had no idea what that meant.

He confessed, “In my naivete, I believed it was, like, an exam or something.” But Fraser claimed that his character in the movie only wished to blend in, much like making it big in Hollywood.

“In this case, David wanted to be a part of this school,” he said. “He wanted the camaraderie, he wanted the glory that sport brought him. But it came at a cost, and the barrier was that he was Jewish, and their anti-Semitism kept him out.”

He added, “So for all that need of wanting to belong, I identified with that because I felt like I want to be a part of this Hollywood also.”

Fraser’s remarks coincide with his spectacular comeback to the public eye after earning notoriety in films like George of the Jungle and the Mummy series.

Fraser has stated that he thinks he was partially banned in Hollywood as a result of a 2003 incident in which the actor alleged that former Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Philip Berk sexually attacked him while they were at a luncheon. (Berk, 89, refutes the assertion.)

The Oscar-nominated star, however, has received minutes-long standing ovations and an outpouring of love for his performance ever since his most recent film, The Whale, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September 2022. A similar reaction was also given to him at the London Film Festival in October 2022.

“I simply started bawling. That resolved every issue, “Fraser joked about the conflicting accounts of how long the applause has lasted during the reception on Late Night with Seth Meyers last month. To be honest, “I guess it depends on who’s holding the stopwatch.”

I feel like the jig is up, you know,” he said, “but I’m still waiting for someone to walk in and tell me that.”

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