BACK WITH ‘Whale’
These moments, London last night Film It happened at the festival. The person who could not control the tears of happiness on the stage is an actor who was born again in his profession at the age of 53. Brendan FraserFraser, who confessed to sexual harassment after a rapid rise in Hollywood, and then fell into depression and whose career came to an end due to being on the “black list” The Whale It was as if he had opened his eyes to the world for the second time in the movie (Whale).
AGAIN HE CANNOT HOLD THE TEARS
The Whale, in which Brendan Fraser takes on a completely different look for the character he will portray. film, was applauded for minutes at the Venice Film Festival this year and the actor could not hold back his tears again. The situation did not change at the London Film Festival either. Fraser was on stage again, and the audience’s applause did not stop. Fraser once put his head on director Aronofsky’s shoulder and greeted the audience that way. An audience watching Fraser’s moments shared his video on his social media page.
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PLAYING AN OBSE MAN
The Whale, where Fraser, who was on the black list of Hollywood for a long time, returned to his old glittering days, is adapted from the play of the same name by Samuel D. Hunter. Darren Aronofsky sits in the director’s chair of the film, whose screenplay was written by Hunter. The film is a psychological drama portraying the transformation of an obese man in a wheelchair, played by Brendan Fraser.
MY HEART GATES IN MY THROAT: After the film’s screening in London, Fraser took the stage and greeted the audience under a shower of applause. A spectator who recorded those moments on his cell phone camera later shared it on social media. The audience also added the message “Am I in Venice? Brendan Fraser was applauded for 5 minutes for his masterful performance. He had the audience in his hand throughout the movie. It was like my heart was beating in my throat.”
FROM THE PEAK TO THE LOWEST
This experience of Brendan Fraser, who really impressed the audience with his performance in the movie and burst into tears, is literally a story of rebirth.
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UNFORGETTABLE MOVIE
Brendan Fraser made his Hollywood debut with the 1991 movie Dogfight. River Phoenix, one of the shining young stars of the period, also took part in this movie. This was followed by Encino Men, which was again an important turning point in Fraser’s career. In this movie, Brendan Fraser plays a caveman who was frozen centuries ago and then returned to the modern world by two high school students.
INJURED ON THE SET
After the success of this movie, Fraser starred in the movie George of the Jungle and The Mummy. Brendan Fraser, who is the indispensable star of action movies due to his strong physique, was injured while filming the third episode of The Mummy.
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CONFIRMED THAT HE HAS BEEN HARASSED
In the early 2000s, something started to go wrong in his career. He made a striking confession in an interview with a magazine in 2003. She was harassed by Philip Berk, the former head of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, she told me. Fraser added that he told this to Afton Smith, whom he was married to at the time, but did not make a public statement.
DENIED THE CLAIM: The response from Berk to Fraser’s allegations of harassment against him was interesting. Philip Berk explained that he had not actually harassed Fraser in any way, that he had done nothing wrong, and that he had already written an apology letter to him in this regard. He also called Brendan Fraser’s allegations “totally fabricated”.
BLACK LISTED
After this statement, Fraser argued that he was “blacklisted” especially at the Golden Globe awards given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. All these events caused Fraser to withdraw and fall into depression. That’s not all..
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It almost disappeared
Brendan Fraser nearly “disappeared” in 2008. He was no longer playing important roles. This was not because of his bad habits, as is common in Hollywood. She began to feel increasingly worthless and taking on roles she was less proud of, Fraser said. Meanwhile, his marriage to his wife was also in turmoil. He parted ways with his wife Afton Smith in 2007. With this divorce, Fraser was separated from all three of her sons. The actor was forced to give $50,000 a month to his ex-wife for child support. However, he argued that his heyday in the 1990s was over and he could not afford to pay this amount.
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‘I FEEL LIKE A SICK CHILD… I HAD A BUMP IN MY THROAT: Fraser described how she felt after this abuse she experienced years later in an interview: “I felt sick. I felt like a sick child. It was as if a lump in my throat was growing and I was about to cry. I felt like.”
DANGER BELLS
Time passed… In 2016, Fraser began to appear in front of the camera in good productions again. She starred in The Affair with Dominic West and Ruth Wilson. But an interview he made during the promotions of this production caused alarm bells to ring for him. He couldn’t gather the words, he was rolling them in his mouth… Everyone suspected that he was depressed. But Fraser said her mother passed away from cancer four days before the interview took place. She even added that she had been grieving for a long time and hadn’t given any interviews. Two years after this awkward situation, Brendan Fraser began to look like he had his career back on track with the TV series Trust.
‘RIGHT PERSON’ BRENDAN
In The Whale starring Brendan Fraser, he seems to have broken the circle he’s been in for a long time. The director of the movie, Darren Aronofsky, said in an interview that the right person for the lead role in the movie was Brendan Fraser.
PHOTOS: ALAMY, AVALON
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