BEDFORD, N.Y. – Brendan Fraser is staring at a cooling fireplace.

“I have an urge to poke this fire so bad,” Fraser says with a grin.

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The 56-year-old actor is midway through breakfast at a boutique Westchester inn not far from his home. He arrived, as Fraser usually does, with wide-eyed excitement, cheerfully greeting the server, ordering up a plate of poached eggs and oatmeal, and occasionally eyeing the fading embers next to him.

Yet Fraser has already rekindled his career thanks to his Oscar-winning turn in 2022's “The Whale.” His best-actor victory was widely cheered as the comeback for the former 1990s star of “Encino Man,” “George of the Jungle” and “The Mummy.” Still, Fraser's victory was also in avoiding the trope of the comeback kid while simultaneous

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