“So this is the multiverse”: the emotion of Brendan Fraser receiving his Oscar for best actor

Brendan Fraser receiving his Best Actor Oscar for the film

Brendan Fraser made an unexpected return to Hollywood by winning the Best Actor Oscar on Sunday for his powerful performance in the drama The Whale. The actor, who delighted audiences with his roles as brawny adventurers in 1990s comedies, won over the Academy Awards as a reclusive, grief-stricken obese professor.

“So this is the multiverse,” said Brendan Fraser, incredulous and moved, receiving the golden statue.

The Whale by Darren Aronofsky marks the comeback of the star 54, who had put his career on hold in the early 2000s for personal reasons and after accusing a film industry pundit of sexual assault.

Imposing prostheses

Fallen into relative oblivion, the actor appears unrecognizable during this feature film in the body of Charlie, a man weighing more than 250 kilos who can no longer leave his home and barely manages to get up from his sofa.

Adapted from a play by Samuel D. Hunter, the work tells the reunion of this English teacher and his daughter – played by Sadie Sink, young star of the series Stranger Things – with whom he cut ties.

Wrapped in massive prosthetics, Brendan Fraser uses his voice and facial expressions to convey his anguish and outbursts of passion and hope.

“Charlie is by far the most heroic character I have ever played,” the actor said in September at the Venice Film Festival. “His superpower is to see the good in others and bring it out.”

vertiginous ascent

Born in 1968 in Indiana, of Canadian parents, Brendan Fraser discovered a passion for the dramatic art early on thanks to the theatre. A graduate of Cornish College in Seattle, he moved to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, which welcomed him with open arms.

It was not long before he landed his first roles, notably in the TV movie Presumed guilty in 1991 alongside Martin Sheen, or the comedy California Man in 1992, where he played a caveman thawed out by teenagers.

Tall, charismatic, Brendan Fraser, with his blue eyes, becomes a familiar figure on the big screen, playing characters exploring unknown worlds.

He makes the spectators cry in the drama The difference (1992), makes them laugh in george of the jungle (1997), then tremble with the adventures of Rick O’Connell (1999) in The Mummy and its two suites.

He plays in more than 40 feature films including furious (2000), A Quiet American (2002), nominated for an Oscar, and Collision (2004), Oscar for Best Picture, until its sudden disappearance from Hollywood posters.

Desert crossing

In 2018, in the wake of the #MeToo movement, the actor accused Philip Berk, former head of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which organizes the Golden Globes, of having sexually assaulted him in 2003.

The psychological impact of the attack, combined with health problems related in particular to his injuries on film sets – Fraser often performing his own stunts – and a high profile and tumultuous divorce with actress Afton Smith are right to him.

If he participates in a few television series, he stays away from the cinema for about ten years until The Whale and his story of redemption only put an end to his journey through the desert.

Brendan Fraser recently participated in Steven Soderbergh’s thriller No Sudden Move and to the movie Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which is due out soon.

The actor, who also won the best actor award from the American Actors Union (SAG) at the end of February, won the Oscars against Austin Butler (Elvis), Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin), Paul Mescal (aftersun) and Bill Nighy (Live).

Original article published on BFMTV.com

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“So this is the multiverse”: the emotion of Brendan Fraser receiving his Oscar for best actor