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Oscar nominee Brendan Fraser hails Glasgow as 'perfect' Gotham as he opens up about scrapped Batgirl film

Batgirl was filmed almost entirely in Glasgow as production took over much of the city for a number of months, but was ultimately scrapped by Warner Bros after a poor reaction at test screenings.

Daily Record

Internet Sweetheart Brendan Fraser Blasted The Golden Globes For Nominating Him Go Off King

"They needed me, I didn’t need them."

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Brendan Fraser admits filming nude scene in 90s film was an 'absolutely scary' experience

Hollywood star Brendan Fraser has revealed he was fully nude while filming a shower scene with Matt Damon in School Ties, describing it as a 'scary' experience

Daily Mirror

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Dis Life: 'Putting an actor in a fat suit to play an obese character on screen is ableist hogwash'

Anna Morell, who works for Disability Rights UK, says actor Brendan Fraser's interviews about his role in a fat suit, beg the question: why are we still using fat suits like this?

Daily Mirror

Brendan Fraser 'blamed himself' for son's autism diagnosis after 'smoking weed in college'

Oscar nominated The Whale actor Brendan Fraser said he felt as though he'd been 'hit over the head with a baseball bat' after his son Griffin was diagnosed with autism and immediately blamed himself

Daily Mirror

Brendan Fraser says his autistic son has the ‘most joy of anyone I know’

Actor admitted he struggled to wrap his head around his son’s diagnosis at the beginning

The Independent UK

Brendan Fraser calls Golden Globes ‘hood ornament’ that ‘means nothing to me’

‘I honestly don’t even wanna think about it that much because it’s not that important to me,’ Fraser says

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The cine files! Your weekly blockbuster breakdown

From Magic Mike to Titanic, what’s hot at the cinema this week

Evening Standard

Darren Aronofsky: “The Whale allows people to have a good cry”

The director talks to us about his new drama starring Brendan Fraser, The Whale, and why audiences have been flocking to theatres to shed some group tears

Evening Standard

The Whale review – Brendan Fraser is remarkable in knotty drama of self-destruction

The Oscar-nominated star plays a chronically obese man in Darren Aronofsky’s clammy, uncomfortable but ultimately redeeming movie

The Guardian - UK

Don’t blame Brendan Fraser for The Whale’s crass fatphobia

Fraser’s controversial Oscar-tipped turn as an obese man saw the actor radically alter his appearance through weight gain and prosthetics. Hollywood’s fixation with extreme physical transformations is at fault, writes Louis Chilton – and it’s starting to stifle the whole industry

The Independent UK

The Whale: Brendan Fraser's comeback offers rare representation of the fat queer male body on screen

The Whale debuted at the 2022 Venice Film Festival to a six-minute standing ovation for its Academy Award-nominated lead, Brendan Fraser, who has returned to the big screen after a considerable hiatus.

The Conversation

The Guide #72: How Sam Smith became one of pop’s most boundary-pushing stars

In this week’s newsletter: With their camp, raunchy new video, the singer has firmly traded sensible and sombre ballads for unapologetic, unbothered queerness

The Guardian - UK

February movie guide: More Oscar nominations land, Hugh Jackman’s The Son and Cocaine Bear

Three more films which have received Oscar nominations at this year's 95th academy awards are in cinemas in the weeks leading up to March 13

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Evening Standard

Everything that should be on your radar this weekend (Feb 4th)

From The Whale to the dance floor, here’s some inspiration for your weekend...

The Independent UK

Why are Hollywood fat suits back in fashion?

Brendan Fraser has been Oscar-nominated for playing an over-eating teacher in ‘The Whale’, described as ‘one of the most fatphobic films of all time’. Eloise Hendy explores how plus-size prosthetics, once derided as dated, have ended up back in the Hollywood toolkit

ABC News

The Whale is being lauded as Brendan Fraser's comeback, but even his Oscar-nominated performance can't evade its flaws

The Mummy star is an Oscars frontrunner for his role as a morbidly obese teacher in The Whale, but not even his affecting performance can quite transcend this flawed film.

The Independent UK

Batgirl star says Brendan Fraser was ‘outstanding’ as villain – but footage will never see the light of day

‘Amazing’ action scenes were shot for the abandoned DC Comics film

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Daily Mirror

Sarah Michelle Gellar tears up as she shares sweet text Brendan Fraser sent after award win

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star sat down with Good Morning Britain entertainment presenter Richard Arnold to discuss her new series Paramount+ series Wolf Pack

Daily Mirror

Brendan Fraser at 'peace with the way he looks' as he recalls Hollywood hunk days

Hollywood actor Brendan Fraser is been hotly tipped to win an Oscar for his role as morbidly obese Charlie in The Whale and the actor says he's ok with no longer being cast as a 'hunk'

The Guardian - UK

Why we need to see fat actors as objects of romantic desire in mainstream films

Letter: It’s hard to stomach the feeling that the world sees my husband as some pervert for finding me attractive, says one reader

The Independent UK

Brendan Fraser says he ‘doesn’t necessarily want to look’ how he did in the Mummy films

‘I’ve made peace with who I am now,’ Oscar-nominated actor said

The New Daily

The Whale is a horror film that taps into our fear of fatness

In The Whale there is no return from being transformed; the damage is done. Fatness is portrayed as the monster.

ABC News

Brendan Fraser, Oscar-nominated star of The Whale, says film can save people's lives

In Brendan Fraser's latest film, he plays Charlie, a man suffering from severe obesity. Despite polarising reviews, he says he's been told his Oscar-nominated role as Charlie will save lives.

Financial Times

Darren Aronofsky on his obesity drama The Whale: ‘When actors start, they all want to cry’

The director talks frankly about making films that don’t spare the feelings of performers or audiences

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