Brendan Fraser Still Gets Only 13 Cents in Residuals for Ben Affleck’s Glory Daze

Brendan Fraser is back to blockbuster mode, but his mailbox is still stuck in the 90s. The Oscar winner says he keeps getting residual checks for a movie most people forgot existed — and they are worth a grand total of 13 cents.

The 13-cent classic: Fraser on his tiniest residual

On Dana Carvey and David Spade's 'Fly on the Wall' podcast, the hosts tossed Fraser a softball: which of his projects pays the biggest residuals? Instead of flexing a franchise, he zagged to the funnier answer — the smallest one.

"My tiniest residual check... I still got one the other day from a film called Glory Daze that Ben Affleck was in... I still get like, you know, a 13-cent check."

He was amused, not annoyed, and doubled down that the least is often more interesting than the most. The chat turned into a light roast of those pocket-change payments actors get long after a job wraps — what comedians love to call 'mailbox money.'

• Glory Daze is a 1995 indie comedy fronted by a very young Ben Affleck, with early-career faces popping up including Matthew McConaughey, Sam Rockwell, Matt Damon, and Fraser.
• Fraser's role? Blink-and-you-miss-it. He joked he basically spent a day riding a bus and trading a couple lines.
• The setup: Dana Carvey asked for the biggest check; Fraser flipped it to the tiniest, got a good laugh, and the segment went nostalgic fast.

Meanwhile: the Rick O'Connell comeback is real

The timing on this story is great, because Fraser is also gearing up to return to his most beloved role. He confirmed he's officially back as Rick O'Connell in Universal's fourth The Mummy movie, reuniting with Rachel Weisz more than two decades after the original films helped redefine pulp-adventure blockbusters.

On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he said he's already putting in the work to get back into tomb-raiding shape — and had a very Fraser way of framing it:

"Mummies are fun. That's just kind of cool, right? I'm looking forward to this," he said, joking about getting his "57-year-old gear" ready again.

He also said he's training up now, with filming set to kick off in the next couple months.

And he has a new WWII thriller on deck

Fraser is also co-starring with Andrew Scott in a World War II thriller called Pressure. The cast is stacked — Kerry Condon and Chris Messina are in the mix — and it's headed only to theaters on May 29.

So yes: from 13-cent checks for a bus ride in a 1995 indie to suiting up for The Mummy again, Fraser's arc right now is a weirdly satisfying mix of couch-change nostalgia and full-tilt comeback.

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