Brendan Fraser Has Everything & Nothing To Prove

When you're shopping online, you and another person could be buying the exact same item and you'll pay more because of who you are, where you are, and your purchase history. Pricing has gone high tech. What we're seeing is big tech sort of reinventing the ripoff. The new realities of surveillance pricing and tips to avoid it. That's this week on the Life Kit podcast from NPR.

Listen in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air, I'm Tanya Mosley. When Brendan Fraser first read the script for Rental Family, he recognized a world he'd never seen shown in film before. It follows an American actor adrift in Tokyo, barely scraping by, until he stumbles into a job with a rental family agency. It's based on a real phenomenon in Japan, companies where you can hire someone to fill a gap in your life, a father to walk you down the aisle, a mourner at a funeral, or simply a companion for dinner.

Brendan Fraser's character is a struggling performer who's suddenly given a new kind of role to play. In this scene, he's speaking with the head of the rental family agency, who's explaining what they do and why they think he might be a good fit. Takahiro Hira speaks first. So, what do you think we do? You have to guess, you um you sell people.

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