Brendan Fraser delivers a "vaguely meta performance" on FX's Trust

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Danny Boyle says Fraser helped shape his character as Fletcher Chace, John Paul Getty Sr.’s cowboy-hat-clad fixer and private eye. A performance that Anna Silman says is Fraser "very much playing a character, but also kinda sorta playing Brendan Fraser." She adds: "From the moment he steps onto the screen, it’s hard not to feel delight at seeing Fraser’s familiar, dependable face back in action. It’s like crossing paths with an old friend you have’t seen in years. And while it’s instantly very funny to see George of the Jungle swaggering around in a cowboy hat and interrogating various Italian restauranteurs and mobsters, there’s also a poignancy to seeing him this role. Fraser’s nostalgic familiarity quickly informs our sense of the character, imbuing Chace with a decency and steadfastness that sets him apart from almost everybody else on the show."