Where to see ‘The Whale’, the film with which Brendan Fraser won the Oscar

Brendan Fraser has culminated his film renaissance by winning the Best Leading Actor statuette for his unforgettable performance in ‘The Whale’, the latest film by Darren Aronofskywhich has been one of the films this season despite not being one of the films nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars 2023. Its story centers on Charlie, a professor who teaches literature at the university.. However, he teaches his classes from his home by videoconference and with the webcam turned off. And it is that Charlie, who remains stranded on the sofa in his house, weighs 275 kilos and is ashamed of his situation and is afraid of showing himself to others. He not only suffers from that fear. He, too, suffers from the ghosts of the past as he tries to reconnect with his teenage daughter in one last chance for redemption.

The filmmaker adapts the work of the playwright Samuel D. Hunter and with it has led his protagonist to obtain numerous awards and three nominations in this 95th edition: Oscar for Best Actor for Brendan Fraser, who finally won it, for Best Actress in Casting for Hong Chau and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, also well deserved given Brendan Fraser’s spectacular transformation for the role.

Where to see ‘The whale (The whale)’

The film hit theaters on January 27. and at the moment it does not have an exact date to arrive at the streaming.

As they point out in esquire, the film could arrive on March 31 at Movistar. This bet is based on the time that A24 has given its projects to land on the platforms. But of course, this is not for sure and for now we have to be content with seeing the film in theaters.

‘The whale (The whale)’ has served to bring back one of the great actors of the 90s. For years I don’t know what happened to Brendan Fraserand the character of Charlie has been an absolute gift for those who one day admire in sagas like ‘The Mummy’ or dramas like ‘Gods and Monsters’.

The 54-year-old actor has been one of the stars of this last awards season. Among the awards that the actor has taken home in recent months are the Critics Choice Awards, where he moved with his prodigious speech, the SAG Awards or the Toronto Film Festival. Now, in addition, he has an Oscar Award.

There has been no better vehicle than Aronofsky’s film, where he once again focuses on the fact of illuminating the darkness of human nature and always together with religious symbolism, to return the actor to the spotlight.

Mickey Rourke followed the same path with his role in ‘The Fighter’. The actor had been out of the game for some time until the director offered him the role of Randy The Ram Robinson, the wrestling professional in low hours. The 2008 film is another story that, as Sergi Sánchez’s critic points out, “about losers in the process of being resurrected”, an explanation that can be extrapolated to the new film by the director of ‘Requiem for a Dream’. This is in addition to the fact that both characters aspire to get closer to a daughter they abandoned long ago. Rourke did not take the statuette, which Fraser did.