Brendan Fraser & Hikari talk about “Rental Family” and found families

Brendan Fraser Returns to the Toronto International Film Festival with “Family for rent“Tender Nova Drama SU-written and directed by Japanese Film Manufacturer Hikari investigating unconventional bonds and the meaning of belonging.

Fraser, who last appeared on TIFF with Darren Aronophic “Kit” (2022) – the role that received the Academy Award, “he said that the project immediately hit him for anything else in his career.

“It was so far removed from everything I saw,” Fraser says. “The story is an unusual way to meet the needs of people who are a berth family. And he felt like a film without a villain by apathy – except apathy. It tells us at this point.”

The movie follows Fraser’s character, Filip Vanderplug, Athensider Adrift in Tokyo, which becomes intertwined in the Japanese industry “Rent” in Rentazia “, where people hire stand-ins to play relatives or classes.

Hikari, who has long been fascinated by the stories of selected families, said it was attracted to the phenomenon because of its measure in the time of termination.

“This job existed in Japan since the 1980s, but people did not really know about it,” she explains Hikari. “The family is all for me, but I also wanted to show the beauty of the found family and community. Although people feel lonely, this type of service brings people in a very awkward, but fascinating way. I wanted to share that story with the world.”

The film grips with the idea that the connection does not require blood. Fraser’s Philip begins the formation of bonds with a young girl and an older man, who comes to represent a family he has always missed.

“Brandan character didn’t have a father figure,” says Hikari. “So, everyone who meets that missing roles in his life. The elderly gentleman becomes his father, the girl becomes his daughter, and everyone else surround them as friends. It’s his family.” It’s his family. “

For Frasera, the story reflects the mirror feeling of insulation and universal longing for belonging. “Sometimes we felt in life as if we wanted to be part of something and that our noses pressed on the glass, trying to enter,” he shared. “I just needed to be there and let the environment speak for myself. It’s a love letter to Tokyo, sent to loneliness.”

Fraser spent four months in Japan who made a film, learning enough Japanese to hold his on the set. Hikari gave him “B-Plus” for his efforts.

“I’m great Mimic,” jokes are joking. “By the end, I could at least understand conversations. And I realized that the language becomes irrelevant when you need to communicate. We will find a way, one way or another.”

While the Hollywood Industry faced criticism for a small number of films that were directed by women who have excited pride that was one of the presented votes.

“The filmmicriesome is very difficult. Hundreds of people are needed,” she says. “I’m happy though women’s directors – directors who are in women’s bodies – still make films. I’m proud to be among so amazing filmmakers.”

After its conquest of the Oscar, Fraser admits that the selection of projects would become more challenging and more exciting.

“Whatever it is made now is because it is good material because the audience can skip to the next thing in the palm of their hand”, Frazera. “That means you really need to put your game in, choose more carefully and be better.”

Next at Docket, Fraser will present President Dwight D. Eisenhover in focus, contains a film “Pressure”, focused on making decisions behind the D-Dana invasion. Star with Andrew Scott.

In the end, Hikari hopes “Rental family” browsers leaves persuasion and resistance.

“I just know everything will be fine,” she says. “If you get stuck, the answers are usually in yourself.”

Fraser Adding: “Villain is apathy. Bring tissues.”