Brendan Fraser’s new horizons include ‘Rental Family’ and rental hedgehogs

Brendan Fraser is staring at a cooling fireplace. “I have an urge to poke this fire so bad,” Fraser says with a grin. 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…