For anyone who remembers the wonderfully strange comedy Bedazzled, Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley seem permanently connected.

He was Elliot Richards, the painfully awkward man willing to sell his soul for a chance at love.

She was the Devil, appearing in one outrageous outfit after another while turning every one of Elliot’s wishes against him.

Their chemistry helped make the 2000 movie something that people still quote and rediscover decades later.

So it may be surprising to learn what happened when filming ended.

Fraser and Hurley essentially disappeared from each other’s lives.

Not because of a feud.

Not because something went wrong on set.

They simply lost touch.

And they would remain that way for more than two decades.

Then, during one of the most emotional chapters of Fraser’s career, they suddenly found each other again.

Bedazzled Arrived at a Very Different Moment in Both Careers

When Bedazzled opened in October 2000, Fraser was in the middle of an extraordinary run.

George of the Jungle had established his gift for physical comedy.

The Mummy had transformed him into a major adventure star.

Movies including Blast from the Past had shown that he could play a romantic lead without losing the awkward sweetness that made audiences like him.

Then director Harold Ramis gave him a role that essentially asked him to become several different Brendan Frasers in a single movie.

Elliot sells his soul to the Devil for seven wishes, hoping each one will finally turn him into the kind of man his coworker Alison could love.

Instead, every wish becomes a joke at his expense.

Fraser transforms into different versions of himself — rich, sensitive, intellectual, athletic — while Hurley’s Devil keeps finding increasingly inventive ways to ruin his plans.

The film itself was a remake of the 1967 British comedy and deliberately changed one major element: this time the Devil was a woman.

Hurley embraced the opportunity.

The result created one of the more unusual movie pairings of the early 2000s.

Hurley Later Said They Got Along “Fantastically”

What happened offscreen makes their later story much more interesting.

Hurley has said she loved working with Fraser.

In 2022, she described him as one of her favorite costars and recalled that the two had gotten along extremely well during Bedazzled.

Then she added the surprising part.

They stopped speaking.

For roughly 20 years, their lives simply went in different directions.

Hurley continued acting and became a fixture of British and American entertainment.

Fraser continued through The Mummy Returns, Journey to the Center of the Earth and other projects before entering the much-discussed quieter period of his career.

Years passed.

There was no dramatic public falling-out to repair.

There was simply distance.

And then came The Whale.

Their Reunion Happened During Fraser’s Comeback

In October 2022, Hurley attended a London screening of Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale.

Fraser was there.

It was the first time the former costars had seen each other in roughly two decades.

The timing made the reunion especially emotional.

Fraser’s performance as Charlie had generated enormous attention on the festival circuit and was becoming the centerpiece of a career resurgence few people had expected.

Hurley watched the movie and came away deeply impressed.

She said she was thrilled to see Fraser again, praised his performance and spoke warmly about seeing someone she remembered so fondly receiving another opportunity to shine.

She also made something else clear.

She wanted to work with him again.

Fraser’s Answer Was Immediate

When Fraser was later told that Hurley wanted another onscreen reunion, he did not hesitate.

He called her funny, talented and a friend.

And when it came to working with her again, his response was simple:

The answer, he said, was always yes.

At the time, it sounded like one of those lovely Hollywood reunion comments that fans hear all the time.

Former costars reconnect.

They say kind things about each other.

Someone asks about a sequel.

Everyone says they would love to do it someday.

Then everybody moves on.

But this time, something actually happened.

Twenty-Five Years After Bedazzled, They Were Cast Together Again

In May 2025, Tubi announced the voice cast of an adult animated comedy called Breaking Bear.

The lineup included Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Annie Murphy, Josh Gad…

and Elizabeth Hurley.

For Fraser and Hurley, it marked their first project together since Bedazzled.

Hurley celebrated the news herself, calling Fraser her “beloved” former costar and noting that they were finally back onscreen together 25 years later.

The reunion was not exactly what fans might have imagined.

There was no Bedazzled 2.

No new Faustian bargain.

No return of Elliot Richards.

Instead, Fraser and Hurley became animated animals in a very adult comedy about a dysfunctional bear family entering the criminal underworld to protect its home.

That may somehow be even more appropriate.

Their New Characters Are Once Again on Opposite Sides

Breaking Bear is deliberately ridiculous.

Tubi describes the series as a mashup of crime dramas and cartoon-animal storytelling, following bears who turn to crime while battling frackers, mobsters and a dangerous wolf pack.

Fraser voices Jer, the oldest bear sibling, a character convinced he is the brains of the family despite repeatedly causing problems.

Hurley voices the Wolf Queen, leader of one of the bears’ most dangerous enemies.

So after 25 years, the dynamic is strangely familiar.

Brendan Fraser is once again playing a well-meaning man — or, in this case, bear — wandering into chaos.

Elizabeth Hurley is once again the dangerous woman making his life considerably harder.

Breaking Bear began streaming on Tubi in summer 2026, making the reunion something fans can finally watch rather than merely imagine.

The Story Means More Because of What Happened in Between

If Fraser and Hurley had simply made another movie together five years after Bedazzled, it probably would have been a fun piece of trivia.

Twenty-five years makes it something else.

Both careers changed.

Hollywood changed.

Fraser disappeared from the kind of leading-man roles that once defined him and eventually returned with a performance that brought him his first Academy Award.

Hurley watched that comeback from the audience and was there during the moment when people were rediscovering her old friend.

She said she wanted to work with him again.

He said yes.

And a few years later, they actually did.

There is an almost suspiciously Bedazzled-like quality to the whole thing.

A wish was made.

This time, the Devil didn’t find a way to ruin it.

Maybe Some Hollywood Connections Just Need Time

Actors often describe productions as families.

Then filming ends, everyone goes home and years pass.

Most costars never work together again.

That is what appeared to have happened with Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley.

They made one memorable comedy.

They enjoyed working together.

Then they did not speak for two decades.

But when they finally met again, the affection apparently had not disappeared with the years.

One reunion led to public praise.

Public praise led to talk of working together again.

And eventually the two names appeared on the same cast list for the first time since 2000.

For fans who grew up watching Elliot desperately negotiate with Hurley’s Devil, it is difficult not to appreciate the symmetry.

Twenty-five years later, Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley finally got another wish.

And this one came true.