Oscars 2023: Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for The Whale

Oscars 2023: Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for The Whale

“I started in this industry about 30 years ago. There was a certain ease and I didn’t know what I was being offered … until it stopped.” With the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, Brendan Fraser marks his return to the stage, which began in September 2022 at the Venice Film Festival.

With impressive make-up (also an Oscar winner), the Canadian-American actor portrays a 270-kilogram man in Whale trying to connect with his daughter as his final hours approach. Dark and radical, this camera, adapted from Samuel D. From Hunter’s play, based entirely on an actor’s performance emerging from a long desert crossing.

Between serious injuries – notably from filming The Mummy saga – the sexual abuse he recently confessed to and depression, Brendan Fraser has been off screen for nearly a decade and has made a timid return to television. In the late 2010s with Trust and then Doom Patrol. Until she met Darren Aronofsky.

We’ll soon find Brendan Fraser eager to greet his fellow nominees with class alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.


Source: Allocine

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