Brendan Fraser’s physical transformation to play a man of over 250 pounds

After the announcement of the films that will compete for the Golden Lion at the 79th Venice Film Festival, the first official image aroused surprise by Brendan Fraser as the protagonist of The whaleby director Darren Aronofky.

The famous actor of the trilogy The Mummy plays a morbidly obese man trying to resume the relationship with her teenage daughter. To embody the role, Brendan Fraser got a total transformation, as seen last year when he went to the premiere of his latest film, No sudden moves.

Of his role in this adaptation of a play by playwright Samuel D. Hunter, Fraser said last year. “It will be something you’ve never seen before”. His character must weigh 300 pounds, so not only did he go through a routine of makeup and prosthetic placement, but he also gained weight.

The plot

The whale presents the story of a literature teacher named Charlie, who sets out to improve his relationship with his 17-year-old daughter, “his last chance at redemption,” in the words of a statement from production company A24.

It is a psychological drama directed by Darren Aronofsky, on his return to directing from 2017, when it debuted. mother!, with Jennifer Lawrence.

The first news on The whale became known in 2021, when Variety magazine announced that Aronofsky and Fraser would work together in the adaptation of a play written by Samuel D. Hunter, which premiered on Broadway in 2012 and focused on the theme of obesity. morbid and isolation.

The rest of the film’s cast is made up of Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield in strange things), Hong Chau, Samantha Morton and Ty Simpkins.

The character Fraser will play lives in isolation at home and uses food as a method of escape, unable to reconnect with his teenage daughter, from whom he has been estranged for years.

The character weighs more than 250 pounds and that’s why Brendan Fraser – who is 1.91 meters tall and previously weighed about 95 pounds – has been completely transformed to look as much as possible like this teacher who teaches online.

Fraser projects

The last time Brendan Fraser was seen live was last year, when he stepped onto the blue carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival to promote his film, No sudden moves.

After being one of the big stars of the 90s and 00s (the trilogy The Mummy Y George of the jungle), the actor did not have great successes in the decade of the 1910s, but in recent times he seems to have reoriented his career.

In 2019 he appeared as the voice of Clifford Steele / Robotman in the series titansfrom the DC universe and the HBO Max production. Then he repeated the role of the spinoff Destiny patrolwhere some flashbacks appear.

He has also had good supporting roles in films such as No sudden moves by Steven Soderbergh (2019) and will soon be seen in The killers of the flower moon by Martin Scorsese e siblings by Max Barbakov.

Fraser will also play a major role in bad girl, where he will be a villain named Firefly, a psychotic arsonist who confronts Barbara Gordon / Batgirl. He will be released this year.

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