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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 · Feb 8, 2023

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 · Feb 6, 2023

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 · Feb 5, 2023

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 · Jan 21, 2023

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 · Jan 16, 2023

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 · Jan 3, 2023

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 · Jan 1, 2023

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 · Dec 28, 2022

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 · Dec 23, 2022

‘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.

Chicago Tribune · Dec 19, 2022