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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

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

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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

The Independent UK

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.

ABC News

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

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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Brendan Fraser says wearing ‘heavy’ prosthetics for The Whale showed him ‘strength’ of people with obesity

‘To be a person that size, you really have to be very strong, physically and emotionally,’ actor said

The Independent UK

Critics Choice Awards: Tearful Brendan Fraser hails comeback from ‘the wilderness’ following win

The 54-year-old took home the best actor award for his performance in drama The Whale

Evening Standard

James Corden almost played Brendan Fraser’s controversial role in The Whale

The Whale ended up starring Brendan Fraser, but the talk show host James Corden has revealed that he narrowly missed out on the part due to a change in director

Daily Mirror

James Corden 'narrowly missed out' on playing 600-pound obese man in The Whale

James Corden 'narrowly missed out' on playing a 600-pound obese man for the lead role in the critically-acclaimed film The Whale starring Brendan Fraser

Daily Mirror

The church of Darren Aronofsky, where 'connection,' 'empathy,' 'love' are the sermon

Director Darren Aronofsky has a way of opening up performers to new emotional depths, explorations of inner pain that often seem to surprise even the actors themselves. So it has been with "The Whale," featuring a celebrated lead performance by Brendan Fraser.

Los Angeles Times

A trio of standout roles reveals Hong Chau's boundless range

The seemingly limitless range of Hong Chau is on display in three films this year, in roles so different that they hardly seem the work of one actor

The Independent UK

‘The Whale’ review: Brendan Fraser does his best with a movie that lays the pathos on thick

I’m of two minds about “The Whale.” I don’t like it; that’s one mind. Yet I love what it has done for its star, Brendan Fraser, a highly likely Oscar nominee come early 2023 and — as he has been since the early 1990s — a wonderful actor.

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In ‘The Whale,’ Brendan Fraser brilliantly embodies a man hopeful for others but tired of himself

Veteran actor delivers the best work of his career in Darren Aronofsky’s heartbreakingly moving story.

The Independent UK

AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Sadie Sink smiles through drama

Sadie Sink may have felt imposter syndrome when she first joined the cast of “Stranger Things,” but the 20-year-old actor is absolutely the real deal

The Independent UK

The Whale director Darren Aronofsky says fatphobia criticisms ‘make no sense’

‘Black Swan’ filmmaker claimed that ‘people with obesity are generally written as bad guys or as punchlines’

Reason

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You need to watch the horrifying thriller that inspired Darren Aronofsky on Amazon Prime ASAP

Before there was 'Requiem for a Dream,' there was an anime classic.

Los Angeles Times

Review: Does Brendan Fraser give a great performance in 'The Whale'? It's complicated

When the camera looks at Brendan Fraser in "The Whale," what does it see? It sees a man named Charlie who weighs 600 pounds and is slowly expiring from congestive heart failure in a dimly lit Idaho apartment. It also sees a familiar Hollywood face attached to a most unfamiliar…

The Guardian - UK

‘All that hyperventilating makes you dizzy’: Brendan Fraser and Darren Aronofsky on The Whale

The actor and director are joined by screenwriter Samuel D Hunter to discuss career comebacks, the hazards of Hollywood and the importance of human connection

Bangkok Post

'The Whale' review: Body issues

Charlie is a college writing instructor who never leaves his apartment. He conducts his classes online, disabling his laptop camera so the students cannot see him.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: Brendan Fraser shines in murky drama 'The Whale'

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” adapted from the play by Samuel D. Hunter (who also wrote the screenplay), about an obese man reckoning with his life over the course of a week, is a morally and emotionally messy film. It is so challenging to puzzle out the muddled messaging of…

Daily Mirror

Brendan Fraser had to wear 300lb fat suit after not putting on enough weight for The Whale

Brendan Fraser reveals he was forced to wear a 300lb fat suit filled with dried beans and marbles after he failed to put on 'enough weight' for The Whale

Asharq Al-Awsat

Brendan Fraser Is Back. But to Him, ‘I Was Never Far Away’

In a darkened hotel room in New York's Soho neighborhood, Brendan Fraser kindly greets a reporter with an open plastic bag in his hand. “Would you like a gummy bear?” Fraser, the 54-year-old actor, is in many ways an extremely familiar face to encounter. Here is the once ubiquitous ’90s…

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