Via ABC Newsroom
Posted on SHOW on 3/12/2023 9:21 am
Hollywood.- Actor Brendan Fraser won the Oscar for best actor for his work in the movie “Whale”. This is the first time that the actor has won a statute.
Fraser was presented as one of the favorites to win the award at the 95th edition of the Oscars.
In this movie, Brendan plays Charlie, a teacher who suffers from obesity, as well as various conditions that keep him close to death, due to obesity.
Fraser’s imagination led him to undergo five hours of make-up to give him the perfect appearance and be truly appreciated by viewers as an obese man.
Previously, Brendan Fraser’s work in the “whale” was also recognized at galas such as the Critics’ Movie Award and the Screen Actors’ Award.
In his speech at the Critics’ Choice Motion Picture Award where he won Best Actor, Brendan Fraser moved thousands with a powerful message to people who are obese or going through a bad time in their lives. .
“If you – a guy like Charlie – who I played in the movie – suffer in any way from fat, or just feel like you’re in a murky sea, I want you to know that if you too can have strength. Get out and go to the light, good things will happen to you.” Fraser, standing ovation.
Who is Brendan Fraser?
Brendan James Fraser was born on December 3, 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Among the most famous films are “Gods and Monsters”, “George of the Jungle”, the “Mummy” trilogy and “Journey to the Center of the Earth”.
In his youth, Brendan Fraser was one of the actors in Hollywood, also watched for his roles as David Greene, Chester Darby or George, he made a movie icon in the early 2000s, but in the middle of the same decade. he disappeared from public affairs and was despised by critics.
During this period, Brendan Fraser left the limelight due to various incidents, which was his divorce from Afton Smith, with whom he had three children. Brendan Fraser’s return to Hollywood was through the front door as he was the main actor in the movie “The Whale” (“La Ballena”, in Spanish), a movie that tonight, March 12, established him as an Oscar-winning actor. Best Actor winner.