BrendanFraser explains how TheWhale impacted his priorities when choosing new projects. 'I feel I have been changed in a sense that I really want to work on projects that, honestly, I just care more about.'
Brendan Fraser’s been adding to his filmography consistently over the years, but there’s no denying that his latest film, The Whale, is unlike anything we’ve seen from him before.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY “This is a pretty unique situation in terms of screenwriting given that this is a play that I wrote from a very personal place. And I followed this play around in the first four productions doing rewrites and working very closely with the cast. I think it'd be a different situation if Darren thought of an idea for a story and then hired somebody to execute it for him. And in the moment I arrived on set, I was really just like, ‘I'm just here to help.
In addition to rehearsal, Fraser prepped for the film by working extensively with the Obesity Action Coalition, an online support group for those living with obesity. While the specifics he learned may not be conveyed via dialogue in the film, that information significantly informed his performance. He explained:
“Anything that I had to do where it required effort, physical effort. Action films and comedy sequences and stunts and all of that, that can be painted with a pretty broad brush, but it taught me to come from a place of just using the body. Charlie needed to do a deadlift like an Olympic athlete every time he stood up, and the gear that I was wearing, the apparatus and the makeup, while it was cumbersome, it was necessary to sell the gravity that he would have to live with.
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