Brendan Fraser gives the most transformative—and, yes, impressive—performance of his career in ‘The Whale.’
Hunter tells me he wrestled with the Fraser casting idea after first hearing it; he could only seethe face that dominated movie posters from his teens and 20s. He later remembered Fraser’s edgier turns, such asbut his initial impression held water. Fraser has never played a role so outside of himself—exactly why Aronofsky wanted him to go on the ride. “He said he wanted an actor to reintroduce,” Fraser says. “And I wanted to be reintroduced.
The detail of Charlie living with life-threatening obesity, while reeling from the passing of his lover, came to Hunter later. “I arrived at it through my own personal struggles with it, as I used to be a lot bigger,” Hunter says. “This is just my story—plenty of people out there are big and happy and healthy and just fine and worthy of respect. But I was self-medicating with food, and it was hard for me to live in the world as that person. I’d never seen that story precisely told.
Fraser found the physical requirements “cumbersome, not exactly comfortable,” at times highly technical. “The torso piece was almost like a straight jacket,” he explains, “with sleeves that went on, airbrushed by hand, to look identical as would human skin, right down to the hand-punched hair.” Fraser carried anywhere from 50 to 300 extra pounds during filming, per Aronofsky, depending on the scene’s contents; further, Charlie is severely limited in mobility.
Still, honoring Hunter’s words meant taking a uniquely exacting approach to the script, alongside longtime DPThe camera had to be in just the right place at just the right time. The actors needed space to try different things, to “explore all the possible emotions they could,” as Aronofsky describes the approach. “He sees everything,” Fraser says of his director. “He told me that, were he not a director, he would’ve been a baseball umpire.
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