Brendan Fraser says he’d do Mummy reboot as he’s never been ‘this famous and unsalaried at the same time’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Brendan Fraser says he wouldn’t be opposed to a reboot of The Mummy as he’d be looking forward to the paycheque. “Gosh, I don’t know any juicy details about it, but it’s kinda been an open-ended question for some time now,” Fraser told Deadline in an interview published on Thursday. I don’t know an actor who doesn’t want a job.” “I don’t think I’ve been this famous and unsalaried at the same time in my professional life, so sign me up,” he continued, joking: “We’ve all got to start somewhere.” Fraser played O’Connell in a trilogy of Mummy movies from 1999 to 2008. Brendan Fraser “The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy, which I didn’t see in that film, was fun,” he said.