'You, too, can have the strength to just get to your feet and go to the light, good things will happen.'
Fraser won wide acclaim for his turn as Charlie in the Darren Aronofsky-led project and got early awards buzz after debuting at the Venice Film Festival.
"It was Herman Melville who once wrote that there are only five critics in America – the rest are asleep," Fraser said in his acceptance speech Sunday night."I don't know what it means, either, but I'm sure glad you woke up for me." "If you – like a guy like Charlie, who I played in this movie – in any way, struggle with obesity, or you just feel like you're in a dark sea, I want you to know that if you, too, can have the strength to just get to your feet and go to the light, good things will happen."
The film's use of a suit to increase Fraser's size has come under fire; both the actor and his director, Aronofsky, previously
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