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The actor, 53, stars as reclusive English teacher Charlie in the film, who tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter while he battles his obesity.<\/p>\n
The Guardian reported what he said at a press conference after it premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday, September 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gave me an appreciation for those whose bodies are similar. I learned that you need to be an incredibly strong person, physically, mentally, to inhabit that being.<\/p>\n
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\u201cCharlie\u2019s physical mobility is limited to his home space, which is his couch. His story is told behind closed doors. He\u2019s a light in a dark space. I think it\u2019s poetic that the trauma he carries is manifest in the physical weight of his body.<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed to learn to absolutely move in a new way. I developed muscles I did not know I had. I even felt a sense of vertigo at the end of the day when all the appliances were removed, as you\u2019d feel stepping off a boat on to the dock here in Venice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film, directed by \u201cRequiem for a Dream\u201d film-maker Darren Aronofsky, is said to be generating an Oscars buzz already.<\/p>\n
It marks Fraser\u2019s first lead role in a movie since his straight-to-DVD 2013 thriller \u201cBreakout\u201d, with reports that it prompted an eight-minute standing ovation at its premiere when the actor\u2019s name appeared in the credits.<\/p>\n
Fraser\u2019s character weighs around 600 pounds (about 272kg) in the movie, and the actor had to wear a huge fat suit and prosthetics for the part.<\/p>\n
The actor, who shares three sons with his actress wife of 23 years Afton Smith, 54, told Vanity Fair about taking the part as he liked a challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there\u2019s no risk, then why bother? I want to learn from the people I\u2019m working with at this point in my career. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had such variety, a lot of high highs and low lows, so what I\u2019m keen for, in the second half of my time doing this, is to feel like I\u2019m contributing to the craft, and I\u2019m learning from it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a prime opportunity. I wanted to disappear into it. My hope was that I would become unrecognisable.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Source <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser believes severely obese people are \u201cincredibly strong physically and mentally\u201d after he played an overweight character in \u201cThe Whale\u201d. !function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d); The actor, 53, stars as reclusive English teacher Charlie in the film, who tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter while he battles his obesity. The Guardian reported what he said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}