Brendan Fraser Tearfully Accepts SAG Award for Lead Film Actor for 'The Whale'
etonline.comBrendan Fraser took home the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. The 54-year-old star beat out Adam Sandler, Austin Butler, Bill Nighy and Colin Farrell to take home the trophy for his powerful performance in and was already in tears as he took the stage to accept the award.«I'm smiling and breathing, that's half the job!» he joked with the crowd as he took a deep breath.«I will treasure this, but never more than how I treasured… my SAG card that I earned in 1991,» Fraser shared. «It made me feel like I belonged.
We're actors, we all want to belong to a tribe, and that's where I found that.»«If you told that guy back then that I'd be standing right here right now, I would not have believed you,» he continued, thanking his children for their strength and his co-stars Hong Chau, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins, and Samantha Morton for their support while making the harrowing drama.Fraser also praised director Darren Aronofsky and writer Samuel D.
Hunter for giving him «the role of my life.» «He's someone who is on a raft of regrets, but he's in a sea of hope,» he noted of his character, Charlie. «I've been in that sea, and I've rode that wave lately, and it's been powerful and good, and I've also had that wave smash me into the ocean floor.»Fraser ended his speech with a promise that things will happen if you «put one foot in front of the other» and simply «have courage.»The SAG Award marks the actor's second-ever win, after taking home the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture prize for in 2006.
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