In an interview with Digital Trends, BrendanFraser and SamuelDHunter explain the importance of telling an authentic story in TheWhale.
Hollywood loves a good comeback story, especially when that actor is as kind and graceful as Brendan Fraser. Thirty years ago, Fraser starred in Encino Man and School Ties, establishing himself as a leading man that would eventually headline blockbusters, like George of the Jungle and The Mummy, for the next 15 years. Although Fraser’s public presence diminished, his talent never disappeared as the world rediscovers his star power again in The Whale.
Brendan Fraser: That we would be creating this character in a way that hasn’t been done in films before. To specify, he’s a man whose body is hundreds and hundreds of pounds. It would require, whether it’s me or any other actor, to wear a costume, makeup, and apparatus applications to create that person authentically.
If it was wrong, you can’t do it, but that wasn’t the case. And once we got that down, then it’s just a matter of attending to the story points, rehearsing as we did for three weeks, and doing our honest best to approach the piece with as much authenticity and vulnerability as we could muster. It’s always going to feel very, very close to me, but I was nervous. Handing it over to someone on film is a very different process. You know, plays are very ephemeral. It’s one of the things I love about them is because, you know, you see them as they’re happening.Hunter: [Laughs] Yeah, but film is etched in marble, you know? So I knew that we had to get it right. Darren knew we had to get it right, and it took a decade to find that guy, and boy, did we find that guy. Boy, did we find that guy.
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