It’s been five years since Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, the controversial and controversial “Mother!”, Hit theaters, and the New York-based director has already finished his next feature, “The Whale”, a starring drama. Brendan Fraser who is approved by the prestigious A24 study (“Midsommar”, “All at once and everywhere”).
‘The whale’ will be previewed at the next Venice Film Festivalwhich will take place from 31 August to 10 September, where the Golden Lion will be competed. The competition accompanied the announcement with a first official image in which we can observe the physical transformation of Fraser, who plays the film of charlie, an online literature professor who weighs 270 pounds and lives in isolation in his Idaho apartment.
To transform the “Gods and Monsters” actor into a morbidly obese man with limited mobility, prosthetics and makeup were used. Fraser, who is currently in a very sweet time in his career, re-emerging professionally and enjoying people’s affection, already plays for the next awards season. And it is that, even if we have not yet seen his work in Aronofsky’s film, we already know the weakness of the Academy for interpretations with physical transformation.
“The Whale” (literally “The Whale”) is based on the play of the same name by Samuel D. Hunter e He is co-star Sadie Sink, who is also going through a big moment of popularity thanks to her role as Max in “Stranger Things”. Sink plays Charlie’s teenage daughter, with whom the protagonist will try to reconnect after a long time without seeing her, in an attempt to reconcile with her past and redeem himself from her.
Renaissance
Fraser, who experienced a golden age in the 1990s thanks to films like ‘The Mummy (The Mummy)’ or ‘George of the Jungle’, has been away from cameras for some time due to personal problems. , including several surgeries resulting from work-related injuries, a divorce that caused him financial problems and the aftermath after accusing HFPA President Philip Berk of sexual assault. everything plunged him into a depression which, coupled with his health problems, led him to disappear for a while.
But after this parenthesis, Fraser returns strongly and promises not to leave indifferent in his new phase as an actor. Beyond ‘The whale’, We will see it soon in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” and as a villain in the DC movie “Batgirl”. Plus, he’s still part of the cast of “Doom Patrol,” another DC property in which he plays Robotman. Other titles in his closest filmography are “Brothers” and “Behind the Curtain of Night”.
Source: E Cartelera
