Brendan Fraser learns new way to move in Venice obesity drama

VENICE, Sept 4 (Reuters) – U.S. actor Brendan Fraser, returning to the large display screen as a number one man after a nine-year absence, mentioned on Sunday taking part in the overweight hero of “The Whale” was the most important problem of his profession.

The film, directed by Darren Aronofsky, is receiving its premiere on the Venice Movie Venice, with Fraser already being touted as an Oscar contender for his portrayal of Charlie, a homosexual, 600-pound (270-kg) man, desperately attempting to reconnect along with his estranged daughter.

The function required Fraser to don prosthetics and make-up that would take as much as six hours to use, leaving him barely capable of stroll within the cramped confines of Charlie’s dilapidated residence.

“I wanted to be taught to completely transfer in a brand new method. I developed muscle tissues I didn’t know I had,” Fraser advised reporters forward of the red-carpet opening.

“It gave me an appreciation for these whose our bodies are comparable, as a result of I learnt that it’s essential be an extremely sturdy individual bodily and mentally to inhabit that bodily being,” he mentioned.

The movie is an adaption of Samuel D. Hunter’s 2012 play of the identical identify, chronicling the speedy decline of Charlie, a delicate soul struggling to come back to phrases with the demise of his companion and consuming himself to demise in his misery.

Regardless of the ache and anguish, Charlie’s compassionate coronary heart, trapped beneath a wheezing mountain of pores and skin, shines out as he seems to be to rekindle his relationship along with his daughter, a deeply troubled teenager, performed by “Stranger Issues” star Sadie Sink.

“By far and away I feel Charlie is probably the most heroic man I’ve ever performed as a result of his superpower is to see the great in others and convey that out,” mentioned Fraser.

Aronofsky, whose film “The Wrestler” received Venice’s essential Golden Lion award in 2008, mentioned one line within the script (“Individuals are incapable of not caring”) impressed him to make the movie.

“(It) is an important message to place out on the planet proper now. Everyone seems to be leaning into the cynicism and darkness and giving up hope. That’s precisely what we do not want proper now,” Aronofsky mentioned.

Fraser has suffered his share of darkness over the previous decade, along with his glory days starring in movies similar to “The Mummy” and “George of the Jungle” showing to be effectively behind him. “I seemed completely different in these days,” he mentioned on Sunday.

Aronofsky mentioned he spent a decade looking for the best lead actor and forged Fraser after recognizing him in a trailer for a low-budget Brazilian movie.

Fraser mentioned he had put his all into the half. “My journey to the place I’m now has been to discover as many characters as I can. This (function) offered the most important problem to me.”

Reporting by Crispian Balmer; Modifying by Hugh Lawson

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