Brendan Fraser Visited London’s Imperial War Museum and Dug Through WWII Archives for ‘Pressure’; How the Film’s Set Ties Directly to ‘The Mummy Returns’

By Jazz Tangcay

Jazz Tangcay

Artisans Editor

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Brendan Fraser figured he knew his history. Growing up in Holland in the 1970s, he’d go to London and visit the Imperial War Museum. He got to see military hardware. “It’s eye-opening,” he says. “It was scary to me.”

He’d read books. He’d seen the films, and he even heard first-hand accounts from neighbors who hid paintings from Nazis. Yet, there was one story he didn’t know about: how General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg found themselves under pressure in the 72 hours before D-Day. As the fate of the free world hangs in the balance, Eisenhower and Stagg face an impossible choice: launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether. That story is the subject of his latest film, “Pressure.”

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