Brendan Fraser revealed that his son helped him join along with his morbidly overweight character in his latest movie, The Whale.
Fraser performs a 272kg English instructor named Charlie who struggles to reconnect along with his estranged teenage daughter, performed by Stranger Things star Sadie Sink.
The actor, 53, mirrored on dwelling along with his eldest son Griffin, 20, as he mentioned the position.
“He just turned 20. He’s a big kid, he’s 196cm. He’s got big hands and feet, a big body. I understand intimately what it is to be close to a person who lives with obesity,” 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 be the happiest individual he is aware of. “Because of the beauty of his spectrum — call it a disorder if you will, I disagree with you — he knows nothing of irony,” Fraser mentioned.
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“He doesn’t know what cynicism is. You can’t insult him. He can’t insult you. He’s the happiest person and is, in my life and many others’, also the manifestation of love.”
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 kids and their mom and our family has given me such love that if ever I needed to hold something of value up to try and translate that to what was important to Charlie [character in The Whale], I didn’t have to look far,” Fraser mentioned.
A24 launched the primary official trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale earlier this month, after the movie obtained lengthy standing ovations at a number of movie festivals.
The movie premiered on the Venice International Film Festival, the place Fraser broke down in tears throughout a six-minute standing ovation for his efficiency. “The Whale” hits theatres on Dec. 9.
The film marks Fraser’s profession comeback to Hollywood after stepping away on account of melancholy. In 2018, he revealed {that a} former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president allegedly sexually assaulted him in 2003.
He has since refused to attend the Golden Globes, even when he’s nominated for his position.
This article was initially printed by the New York Post and reproduced with permission
