Darren Aronofsky on The Whale and the Second Coming of Brendan Fraser

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The director discusses his Oscar-nominated film about a morbidly obese online college professor (played by Brendan Fraser), and weighs in on the so-called ‘Brenaissance’

was woefully unprepared. “I did not know how much love there was out there for Brendan,” says the director of his decision to cast Brendan Fraser, former teen heartthrob and star of. “In many ways, I thought if anything people might have even looked down on him a bit.”

The beauty of cinema is you can transport people into a pair of shoes and have them walk in a character’s spirit and soul, and Charlie is such a beautiful human being in all his messed-up, confused, contradictory waysAD: You’ve said previously how you struggled for years to cast for the role. Were there other actors you approached before casting Brendan?

He also had a tremendous likability, which was interesting, because the guy who played Charlie in the play ten years ago didn’t play it in the same kind of way – it was much more gruff. But it still worked, which I think shows you there’s enough room in the material for actors to approach it in many different ways.DA: Oh yeah, that was probably the second phone call I made after Brendan’s.

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Yes: in some ways slightly messy and uneven, but Fraser is outstanding and the last 10 or 15 minutes are like a powerful punch to the guts, even with the bleak darkness which precedes them. Hugely emotional, imperfect, startling: definitely worth seeing.

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