Brendan Fraser succeeded in the oscars 2023 through his role in The whaleDarren Aronofsky’s film in which he plays a lonely professor suffering from severe obesity trying to reconnect with her teenage daughter in a last chance at redemption.
The tape was the great opportunity for Fraser, who after years in the shadows returned to the cinema through the front door and to the applause of all his colleagues. Received a long six-minute ovation at the Venice Film Festival, where the film was presented, and moved with his speech at the Hollywood Film Academy Awards.
“Thank you to Darren Aronofsky and Samuel D. Hunter (director and screenwriter of the film) for giving me a lifeline. You bared your whale-sized hearts so we could see your souls,” said the actor. excited and teary eyed from the stage of the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to collect the statuette.
“I started 30 years ago and things weren’t easy but there was something that i didn’t appreciate at the time until it stopped. And I just want to say thank you for this recognition because it wouldn’t have been possible without my cast. It was as if I had dived to the bottom of the ocean and the air I was breathing on the surface had been watched by certain people in my life, like my sons Holden, Leland and Griffin. I love you Griffy” he says, addressing the third of his children diagnosed with ASD (autism spectrum disorder).
The actor remembered his team members and said goodbye, thanking his partner for the award. “My best partner, Jeanie”said about Jane Moorewhose relationship became known in 2022.