Brendan Fraser completes his comeback with a 2023 Oscar for his transformative, but controversial, lead performance in 'The Whale.' Oscars
as a 600-pound, suicidal, gay professor and the depiction of morbid obesity in the film , Fraser had won more than 20 lead actor prizes from critics’ groups including the Critics’ Choice Assn., and collected the most reliable Oscar precursor: the Screen Actors Guild Award.Working in COVID isolation, makeup artist Adrien Morot created the foundation of silicone suit to make Brendan Fraser appear obese without ever meeting the actor.
Though Fraser has worked steadily in television and smaller movies in recent years, he hadn’t headlined a major theatrical release since 2010’s “Extraordinary Measures” with Harrison Ford. Before that, of course, he had starring roles in the “Mummy” franchise, “,” best picture winner “Crash,” “Gods and Monsters,” “George of the Jungle” and many others.
Fraser has attributed his absence from the marquee in part to injuries suffered while enthusiastically filming his many action movies;
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