Brendan Fraser revealed that his son helped him join along with his morbidly overweight character in his latest movie, “The Whale.”
Fraser performs a 600-pound English trainer named Charlie who struggles to reconnect along with his estranged teenage daughter, performed by “Stranger Issues” star Sadie Sink.
The actor, 53, mirrored on residing along with his eldest son Griffin, 20, as he mentioned the position.
“He simply turned 20. He’s an enormous child, he’s 6-foot-5. He’s obtained large palms and ft, an enormous physique. I perceive intimately what it's to be near an individual who lives with weight problems,” Fraser instructed Interview journal.
Griffin is the eldest of Fraser’s three sons (together with Holden, 18, and Leland, 16) along with his ex-wife Afton Smith.
Fraser defined that his son Griffin, who has autism, can also be the happiest particular person he is aware of. “Due to the great thing about his spectrum — name it a dysfunction if you'll, I disagree with you — he is aware of nothing of irony,” Fraser mentioned.
“He doesn’t know what cynicism is. You possibly can’t insult him. He can’t insult you. He’s the happiest particular person and is, in my life and lots of others’, additionally the manifestation of affection.”
The actor defined that his relationship with Griffin and his household helped him to narrate to his character, for which he has been extremely praised.
“Being with my youngsters and their mother and our household has given me such love that if ever I wanted to carry one thing of worth as much as try to translate that to what was essential to Charlie [character in ‘The Whale’], I didn’t need to look far,” Fraser mentioned.
A24 launched the first official trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” earlier this month, after the movie acquired lengthy standing ovations at a number of movie festivals.
The movie premiered on the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition, the place Fraser broke down in tears throughout a six-minute standing ovation for his efficiency. “The Whale” hits theaters on Dec. 9.
The film marks Fraser’s profession comeback to Hollywood after stepping away resulting from melancholy. In 2018, he revealed that a former Hollywood International Press Affiliation president allegedly sexually assaulted him in 2003.
He has since refused to attend the Golden Globes, even when he's nominated for his position.
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