Brendan Fraser’s Sons Holden, 18, & Leland, 16, Support Him At Screening Of ‘The Whale’: Photos

The Fraser boys were looking bully successful the Big Apple connected Monday. Brendan Fraser attended a screening of his caller movie, The Whale, astatine Alice Tully Hall successful Manhattan’s Lincoln Center connected Nov. 28, on with his sons, Holden Fraser and Leland Fraser. Brendan, 53, sported a dapper acheronian bluish suit, portion Holden, 18, opted for a acheronian bluish suede coat, achromatic pants, and a grey turtleneck. The redhead Leland, 16, wore a achromatic overgarment and matching pants with a dark-print button-up shirt.

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Joining the Fraser boys for this outing was Brendan’s longtime partner, constitution creator Jeanne Moore. Brendan shares his sons, including Griffin Fraser, with histrion Afton Smith. He and Afton, 54, were joined for 10 years, from 1998 to 2008, earlier going their abstracted ways. Afton herself appeared successful immoderate of the biggest movies of the ‘90s – Less Than Zero, Reality Bites, and Fried Green Tomatoes – earlier leaving acting to prosecute a vocation arsenic a writer.

Ahead of the merchandise of The Whale — which sees Brendan play Charlie, a 600 lbs. antheral trying to reconnect with his girl (Sadie Sink) — helium shared however his children informed his performance. “I person 3 kids of my own. My oldest lad Griffin has peculiar needs. He’s autistic. He conscionable turned 20. He’s a large kid. He’s six ft five,” helium told Freddie Prinze Jr. in an Interview mag chat. “He’s got large hands and feet, a large body. I recognize intimately what it is to beryllium adjacent to a idiosyncratic who lives with obesity. And due to the fact that of the quality of his spectrum—call it a upset if you will, I disagree with you—he knows thing of irony.”

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“He doesn’t cognize what cynicism is. You can’t insult him. He can’t insult you. He’s the happiest idiosyncratic and is, successful my beingness and galore others’, besides the manifestation of love,” continued Fraser. “Being with my kids and their ma and our household has fixed maine specified emotion that if ever I needed to clasp thing of worth up to effort and construe that to what was important to Charlie, I didn’t person to look far.”

In 2009, Brendan spoke astir however his young sons weren’t alert of what helium did for a living. “I archer them I’m going to work,” helium said to OK, via People, “and they say, ‘What bash you do, daddy?’ ‘Well, I decision atrocious guys?’ ‘Wanna instrumentality 1 of my lightsabers?’ [laughs] ‘You know, I privation to spell enactment with Han Solo.’ What?! Oh, by the way, I conscionable got hired to enactment with Harrison Ford. Cool! Look astatine me, I’m turning into 1 of my kids. Don’t archer anyone!”

At the time, Brendan was promoting Inkheart and was blessed that helium made a movie that helium could ticker on with his young boys. “I cognize a satisfying acquisition astatine the movies with your household is simply a affirmative experience,” helium said. “There are different films that I’ve made, and erstwhile those kids turn a small spot older, past I’ll amusement them that enactment oregon they’ll find it themselves. In the end, I don’t cognize an histrion who idles precise well, truthful I’m blessed to support my hands and feet busy.”