Brendan Fraser Gets His Flowers While Walking The Oscars’ Red Carpet With His Girlfriend

Even if helium doesn’t triumph the Oscar for Best Actor, Brendan Fraser volition permission the 95th Academy Awards a winner. Brendan, 54, appeared astatine the Mar. 12 lawsuit astatine the Dolby Theatre successful Hollywood, California, alongside his girlfriend, Jeanne Moore. Brendon, who is nominated for his relation successful Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, walked the reddish carpet alongside his amended fractional up of the ceremony, basking successful the adulation and the photographers’ flashing camera lights. Jeanne looked glamorous successful her royal bluish gown, portion Brendan chopped a classy fig successful a crisp tuxedo.

Jeanne Moore and Brendan Fraser astatine the 2023 Oscars (Christopher Polk/Shutterstock)

Heading into the awards amusement season, determination was buzz implicit Brendan’s show successful The Whale, making him a  contender for the Best Actor prized. However, that borderline has waned, with Austin Butler taking the BAFTA and Golden Globe for the rubric relation successful Elvis. Brendan did get his accidental to radiance astatine the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards, erstwhile his peers picked him for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor successful a Lead Role. The triumph came aft helium took Best Actor astatine the 2023 Critics Choice awards.

Brendan Fraser astatine the 95th Academy Awards connected Mar. 12, 2023 (David Fisher/Shutterstock)

“I was successful the wilderness — and I astir apt should’ve near a way of breadcrumbs — but you recovered me, and similar each the champion directors, you simply conscionable showed maine wherever to spell to get maine wherever I needed to be,” Brendan told manager Darren Aronofsky. “If you — like Charlie, who I played successful this movie — successful immoderate way, conflict with obesity, oregon you conscionable consciousness similar you’re successful a acheronian sea, I privation you to cognize that if you, too, tin person the spot to conscionable get to your feet and spell to the light, bully things volition happen.”

The Whale marks a instrumentality to the mainstream for Fraser. In 2018, he spoke with GQ, during which helium alleged that Philip Berk, the then-president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, sexually assaulted him astatine a Golden Globes Awards luncheon successful 2003. The alleged assault, his 2007 divorcement from Afton Smith, lingering wellness issues, the decease of his mother, and different issues led Brendan to intermission his vocation for a fewer years. However, helium didn’t quit, arsenic helium continued to enactment successful movies and series, astir notably successful Doom Patrol and successful films similar Hair Brained, Stand Off, and Pawn Shop Chronicles.

Brendan, erstwhile speaking with Zach Baron again for GQ successful 2022, said that radical often accidental “welcome back” to him. “‘Good that you’re back. I’m gladsome to spot you back.’ And I accidental convey you. And immoderate of them adjacent go, ‘We’ve missed you. Where person you been?’ You know, similar astir letting maine cognize that I disappointed them. And the archetypal happening retired of my rima is, ‘I was ne'er that acold away.'”

“[My] anticipation is that I tin beryllium recognized astatine this clip successful my beingness and vocation for my nonrecreational efforts, alternatively than the trope of the comeback kid arsenic being a modular successful culture, sports, coming from behind, being written off, and past coming back,” Brendan said to GQ.

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