With Austin “Elvis” Butler, he was one of the two favorites for the Best Actor Oscar at this 95th ceremony. Brendan Fraser was crowned for his role in “The Whale”, thus making a comeback as Hollywood loves them.
“I started in this industry about 30 years ago. There was a certain ease, and I was not aware of what was offered to me…until it stopped .” With his Oscar for Best Actor, awarded by the Academy for his role in The Whale by Darren Aronofsky, Brendan Fraser celebrates his return to the front of the stage, which began in September 2022 at the Venice Film Festival.
Worn by an impressive make-up (also awarded an Oscar), the Canadian-American actor portrays in The Whale a man weighing 270 kilos, and trying to reconnect with his daughter as his last hours approach. Dark and radical, this camera adapted from the play by Samuel D. Hunter, is based entirely on the performance of the actor, who comes out of a long crossing of the desert.
Between serious injuries -due in particular to the filming of the saga The Mummy-, a sexual assault on which he had recently confided and a depression, Brendan Fraser had disappeared from the screens for almost a decade, beginning a timid comeback through the television in the late 2010s with Trust then Doom Patrol. Until he met Darren Aronofsky.
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We will soon find Brendan Fraser, who wanted to greet his co-nominees with class, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese.