Brendan Fraser Promotes Healthy Eating With Humor

Brendan Fraser's new slapstick comedy, Furry Vengeance, has him coping with the animals and humans who all want a piece of him. The 41-year-old father of three boys - Griffin, 7 1/2, Holden, 5 1/2, and Leland, 3 1/2 - talks to Parade about the film's eco-friendly message and how he uses the outtakes to get his sons to eat their vegetables.

On getting his kids to eat their veggies: "I had the gag reel from the film with every take of me being humiliated and smashed and trashed. So I'd use it as a reward to get my kids to eat their vegetables. I'd be like, 'Eat your broccoli and you can watch dad fall down again.'"

On the eco-friendly message to kids: "We all know that we should reuse, recycle, repair, respect, and return to the way we used to do things. But I think it's especially important to remind kids of that. They have great fun when they see this movie, but they also get the point about preserving nature. I was at a screening where some of them were actually quite indignant about the forest and all the creatures great and small being threatened for a development project. They're rooting for the furry guys all the way through it."

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