Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale signs Brendan Fraser’s long-awaited reunion with the cinema. In the film distributed by A24, he plays Charlie, a morbidly obese man who tries to reconnect with his teenage daughter as her health deteriorates, a role that earned him a long and touching standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival in September. and which could earn him an Oscar in 2023. At the cinema in France on February 22, The Whale is revealed in a short trailer, almost without words, but rich in emotions. For the role, the actor is transformed and weighs 270 kg to interpret this professor suffering from depression and hyperphagia following the death of his lover, who lives alone and isolated, giving his lessons from his sofa which he almost never leaves. It is Sadie Sink who plays Ellie, her daughter and Hong Chau, Liz her nurse. See also on Konbini For twelve years, Brendan Fraser was an absent subscriber. In question: family problems, multiple health concerns, depression and an accusation of sexual assault against Philip Berk, the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, in charge in particular of the Golden Globes, who kept away from film sets for many years. Brendan Fraser is not closing the door on a fourth opus of The Mummy
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