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Makeup artist Adrien Morot (“X-Men: Dark Phoenix”) assembled the silicon suit Fraser wore for the movie out of a body scan built by a 3D printer. That film had Mickey Rourke this one involved a lot of fancy prosthetics. Like “The Wrestler,” the movie finds its antihero enduring tremendous physical hurdles as an extension of his internal grief. Beyond that, it’s hard to imagine other Best Actor candidates - which range from Bill Nighy in “Living” to Austin Butler in “Elvis” - gaining as much enthusiasm in the months ahead as Fraser absorbed in a matter of days for “The Whale.” (The actor’s own self-imposed exile from the industry as a result of experiencing a sexual assault adds another dimension to the performance.)Ĭolin Farrell took home the acting prize in Venice for hilarious turn in Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin,” but that fun and soulful delivery is unlikely to generate the hype of Fraser’s comeback narrative.
The montage introducing his award included snippets of everything from “The Mummy” and “George of the Jungle” to “Encino Man,” as well as dramatic tangents like “Gods and Monsters,” but none of those roles contained the jolting, transformational power of watching Fraser inhabit a broken figure at the end of his life. The premise could easily devolve into exploitation, were it not for Fraser’s sensitive and believable performance at its center that’s unlike anything in his career to date. Hunter’s play, “The Whale” is risky even by Aronofsky’s standards.
After Darren Aronofsky’s new film made its North American premiere, TIFF recognized the actor and former Torontonian for his surprising turn as a 600-pound gay man who has alienated his family and spends most of his time binge-eating on the couch.Īn adaptation of Samuel D. Fraser teared up at a thunderous ovation that followed the premiere of “ The Whale” in Venice, but TIFF threw him a homecoming party.
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