Brendan Fraser Slims Down After Gaining Weight & Wearing A Fat Suit For ‘The Whale’ At BAFTA Tea Party

Brendan Fraser, 54, showed disconnected his value nonaccomplishment aft losing the pounds helium enactment connected for his unthinkable movie The Whale, astatine the BAFTA Tea Party successful Beverly Hills, CA connected Saturday. The talented actor posed connected the reddish carpet of the lawsuit successful a airy grey suit and acheronian bluish necktie arsenic good arsenic achromatic shoes. He besides rocked a brace of glasses and gave a grin to cameras capturing the epic moment.

Brendan astatine the BAFTA Tea Party. (Rob Latour/Shutterstock)

In summation to posing solo, Brendan posed with his gorgeous spouse Jeanne Moore. She wore a agelong sleeveless reddish formal and had her agelong blonde hairsbreadth down arsenic she held onto his limb and flashed a large smile. She besides held metallic clutch purse and added light-colored pointy heels to her look.

Brendan’s BAFTA quality comes aft helium made lasting impressions with his relation of Charlie, a 600-pound English teacher who is looking to reconnect with his 17-year-old estranged daughter. The movie is based connected 2012 play written by Samuel D. Hunter, and Brendan had to summation value and deterioration a abdominous suit to alteration into the close size to play the character.

Brendan successful ‘The Whale.’ (Everett Collection)

“I developed muscles I did not cognize I had,” helium told journalists, including 1 for Variety, astatine a property league successful Venice successful Sept., up of the movie’s satellite premiere. “I adjacent felt a consciousness of vertigo astatine the extremity of the time erstwhile each the appliances were removed; it was similar stepping disconnected the dock onto a vessel successful Venice. That [sense of] undulating. It gave maine appreciation for those whose bodies are similar. You request to beryllium an incredibly beardown person, mentally and physically, to inhabit that carnal being.”

Darren Aronofsky, who directed The Whale, besides explained wherefore helium chose Brendan to play the unthinkable part, adjacent though helium had been retired of the nationalist oculus for a while. “It took maine 10 years to marque the movie and that’s due to the fact that it took maine 10 years to formed the film. Casting Charlie was a immense situation for galore antithetic reasons,” helium explained.

“I considered everyone — each types of antithetic actors, each azygous movie prima connected the planet. But nary of them ever truly clicked,” helium continued. “It conscionable didn’t determination me, oregon consciousness right. A mates years ago, I caught a trailer from a Brazilian movie, a low-budget [movie], and I saw Brendan successful the trailer and a lightbulb went off. I hadn’t seen ‘Gods and Monsters’ oregon ‘George of the Jungle.’ Seeing him successful there, it conscionable clicked. I asked Brendan to travel conscionable me…it conscionable kept clicking.”

Brendan’s impactful relation led to a nomination for a Golden Globe Award. Although helium didn’t extremity up winning, the prima ne'er planned connected going to the ceremony. “I person much past with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I person respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” helium told GQ magazine past year, referring to a erstwhile assertion helium made astir being sexually assaulted by erstwhile HFPA president Philip Berk.

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