What was the last big film you saw starring Brendan Fraser? Come to think of it, are you even old enough to remember who Brendan Fraser is? Let loaded fill you in.

Fraser first arrived on the scene in 1992’s Encino Man, a teen comedy about a caveman who awakes in modern day LA with the inevitable fish-out-water hijinks ensuing.

Over the next decade, Fraser enjoyed steady success with movies like George Of The Jungle, Gods and Monsters and Bedazzled all proving popular.

He even put in a good show in Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy trilogy, serving as the franchise’s stand-in Indiana Jones, Rick O’Connell. By the early noughties he was also appearing in critically acclaimed fare lik The Quiet American and Crash. Then things went a bit quiet.

For whatever reason, from about 2009 onwards, Fraser failed to land as many major movie roles, while the films he did appear in made little impact at the box office.

There were theories, with the main one pointing to a bizarre on-camera moment at a Hollywood awards show, where Fraser seemingly lost the ability to clap with bizarre consequences:

Mostly, however, everyone just went around as normal, quietly wondering to themselves ‘What happened to Brendan Fraser?’ That included loaded, for that matter, who wrote specifically on the very topic.

Now a dedicated Fraser fan or ‘Frasatic’ as we call them, has taken to change.org to call on the likes of Netflix, Starz and HBO to recruit the one-time Scrubs star.

The petition’s blurb reads:

“Brendan Fraser is a fantastic actor and person to work with, he has starred in films such as ‘The Mummy’ and ‘Journey to the center of the earth’ and now he needs our help. On December 27th, 2007, Brendan Fraser announced that he and his wife Afton Smith were getting a divorce after nine years of marriage. In early 2013, Fraser petitioned the courts for a reduction of his alimony, asserting he was unable to meet the annual obligation of $900,000.”

“We are now calling on all networks to please consider Brendan for any upcoming shows/movies that are planned. Brendan as of late has been showing some symptoms of depression and it’s hard to blame him considering what his ex-wife has done to his career and his life, and us fans feel helpless that we can’t help a much loved actor get back on his feet again.”

A campaign we can all get behind, the petition is closing in on its supporters target and could yet lead to more work.

Fraser is not the only Mummy star to have fallen on hard times either. His on-screen son, from the sequel The Mummy Returns, quit acting to focus on a new career as an estate agent.

Now let’s make sure Fraser doesn’t suffer a similar fate. Sign up here.