Brendan Fraser’s winning of the Best Actor Oscar on Sunday for his poignant performance in “The Whale” marked his unexpected triumphant return to the Hollywood front.
The actor, who was known to audiences during the nineties of the twentieth century in the roles of muscular adventurers in comedies, impressed the Academy Academy with his role as a religious, isolated teacher in his home, who suffers from grief, in the movie “The Whale”.
“So this is the multiverse,” Frazier said, appearing moved as he accepted the award.
Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” represents the return of the 54-year-old star, who withdrew professionally in the early 2000s for personal reasons.
And relatively forgotten was this actor who appeared in a completely different appearance in this feature film in the role of Charlie, a man who weighs more than 250 kilograms, who can no longer leave his house, and can hardly get up from his sofa.
The film, adapted from a play by Samuel D. Hunter is the story of the reunion between this English language teacher and his daughter, who was played by the young star of the series “Stranger Things” Sadie Sink, after he broke up with her.
Frazier’s appearance was artificially changed in the film, to show him as required by his role, while the actor excelled in expressing his anxiety and sadness, his feelings of passion and hope, with his voice and facial interactions.
“Charlie is the most heroic character” he has performed in his career, Frazier said at the Venice Film Festival last September. He added, “His supernatural ability is that he sees the good in others and is able to extract it.”
He rose.. and receded.
The stage was behind the early emergence of a passion for acting in Brendan, who was born in 1968, in Indiana, to Canadian parents.
Frazier settled in Los Angeles after graduating from Cornish College in Seattle.
He was soon given his first roles, most notably in the 1991 TV movie “Presumed Guilty” alongside Martin Sheen, and in the 1992 comedy “California Man”, where he played a caveman who is discovered by teenagers.
Tall and charismatic, with blue eyes, Frazier became a familiar face on the big screen, playing a variety of characters. He made the audience cry in the drama “School Ties” in 1992, and made the audience laugh in “George of the Jungle” in 1997, and then frightened them in the adventures of the character Rick O’Connell (1999) through the movie “The Mummy” (The Mummy) and you tame him.
He participated in more than 40 feature films, including: “Bedazzled” in 2000, “The Quiet American” in 2002, which was nominated for an Oscar, and “Crash” in 2004, which won the best Oscar. A movie, before it suddenly turned away from the Hollywood front.
Frazier won the Oscar, ahead of his competitors: Austin Butler for “Elvis”, Colin Farrell for “The Banshees of Anarchy”, Paul Miscal for “After Sun” and Bill Nye for “Living”, after he won the best actor award at the end of last February from the Oscars. Actors Guild of America (SAG).
