The Furor Over Brendan Fraser’s Fat Suit in ‘The Whale': Turns Out You CAN Be Too Thin in Hollywood
thewrap.comteary-eyed, in a six-minute standing ovation.For an actor whose status in the industry has been teetering perilously close to has-been territory, it was an extraordinary moment.
Suddenly, the one-time “Mummy” star, who had all but disappeared from the big screen over the past decade (his most noteworthy recent role was a smallish part in 2017 as a prison guard in a handful of episodes of “The Affair”), had become a front runner in this year’s Best Actor race.
Even critics, who’d never been especially effusive over Fraser before, were showering him with praise (“An impressive feat,” TheWrap’s own Ben Croll described his performance).
For a brief, fleeting moment, it looked as if Fraser was poised to make the most dramatic Hollywood comeback since “Pulp Fiction” defibrillated John Travolta’s near-dead career.
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