Star of The Whale became a much better actor than he was a student
When Paul Bennett, the Halifax university professor and educational consultant, looked up at his old student at the movie theatre screen this week, the dark-pouched eyes he saw “are his eyes” the same ones that “go through us.”
Bennett, then head of the Toronto school’s history department, remembers him as painfully shy, lacking confidence, and “just trying to fit in.” There were only 23 students in Bennett’s Grade 9 history class, which met daily for the entire school year. That assessment squared with his long-ago mock parliament performance. Bennett said “he wasn’t prepared for” the event and spent most of his time hiding in the back of the room as the debates carried on.There was no whiff of subsequent greatness during Fraser’s five years at UCC. His academic standing was shaky enough that he had to drop math. He wasn’t particularly popular or sporty.
As the years went on, his old teachers were surprised by his rise to big-screen stardom, particularly when one of the roles that catapulted him to stardom was a private school quarterback, inhe returned to walk the halls of UCC
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