(Image: Wikipedia)The actress, 52, who co-starred with Fraser in 1999’s The Mummy and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns, texted the actor, 54, after he won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in The Whale.
Rachel Weisz recently congratulated Brendan Fraser on his Oscar win last month
Rachel, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Constant Gardener in 2006, stated: ‘I’m so happy for Brendan. Very happy.
‘I texted after his win. I texted him after I saw the performance. It was a staggeringly good film.’
Rachel added: ‘I’m really, really thrilled for him… that he’s had this new chapter. And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer, nicer guy.’
Brendan played Evelyn in The Mummy franchise, while the actress played Rick, her on-screen husband.
Brendan is currently riding the wave of his incredible comeback, which included an Oscar win for The Whale last month.
The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky, starred Brendan as a wheelchair-bound gay man weighing 600 pounds.
The film, which was released four days before Christmas 2022, received widespread acclaim, including a Best Actor Oscar for Brendan.
‘Thank you, thank you. So this is what the multiverse looks like,’ he joked in his Academy Awards acceptance speech.
‘Oh, my goodness. I thank the Academy for this honor and for our studio A24 for making such a bold film. And – I’m grateful to Darren for throwing me a creative lifeline and hauling me aboard the good ship The Whale,’ said he.
‘I started in this business 30 years ago, and things – they didn’t come easily to me, but there was a facility that I didn’t…I didn’t appreciate at the time until it stopped.’
The sizzling sensation offered his gratitude ‘for this acknowledgement, because it couldn’t be done without my cast.’
Brendan added: ‘t’s been like I’ve been in a diving expedition at the bottom of the ocean and the air on the line to the surface is on a launch being watched over by some people in my life, like my sons, Holden and Leland and Griffin. I love you.’
