Brendan Fraser Breaks Down His Physical Transformation In The Whale
Among all the critical acclaim that the upcoming film The Whale is getting, Brendan Fraser's performance as the 600-pound Charlie is getting special recognition both for his acting and how the film was able to turn Fraser into the morbidly obese character. When the film was screened at TIFF, Fraser was asked to go into detail about what it was like to play Charlie.
Fraser went into detail on what it was like to physically transform into the 600-pound Charlie while filming The Whale. Fraser talked about what director Darren Aronofsky told him ahead of time before they started the film.
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«He went on to explain that Charlie carries some hundreds and hundreds of extra pounds in body weight,» Fraser said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. He then went into detail as to what it took to physically create Charlie on the screen, both in his appearance and in his personality. «To create that, we needed to start with costuming, apparatus, makeup. He would be doing a scan, a 3D rendering, printing without a mould of that. Then more traditional applications. An actor gets up early and we all drink a lot of coffee and look at YouTube videos. Then maybe I'd nap a bit. That's how it gets started. (Aronofsky) had me at 'I'm making a movie,' so that's why I went.»
The Whale is Fraser's first lead since getting back into Hollywood following all of his personal issues, from his ugly divorce to the trauma he suffered both physically and sexually. Fraser was a certified A-List actor in the 1990s and 2000s, thanks primarily due to his success in family-friendly adventures like The Mummy franchise. Fraser had fallen out of the spotlight around the early 2010s but is now
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