Brendan Fraser brought to tears as The Whale premieres at Venice Film Festival

The actor built a uncommon crimson carpet look for the premiere of The Whale at the Venice Film Pageant over the weekend, and was get over with emotion as he acquired an “eight-moment standing ovation” when his identify appeared in the credits, The Impartial claimed.

The Mummy star Fraser, 53, underwent a dramatic bodily transformation and donned prosthetics to portray a 270kg male in Darren Aronofsky’s psychological drama.

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Assortment’s Ramin Setoodeh tweeted footage of the standing ovation for Fraser right after the movie aired for the initial time, revealing The Whale was so properly gained, the actor was not able to depart the theatre.

In the clip, the famously modest star seems near to tears as he accepts the praise, kicking out his leg in a mock “shucks” and nodding in thanks.

Aronofsky’s movie is adapted from a perform by Samuel D. Hunter that focuses on the daily life of a gentleman living with weight problems named Charlie, who is searching for to reunite with his estranged teenage daughter, played by Stranger Matters star Sadie Sink, soon after abandoning his wife and youngster for a homosexual lover. Charlie turned morbidly obese right after building a compulsive eating disorder to deal with his lover’s loss of life.

It marks Brendan’s initially lead role in a film due to the fact straight-to-DVD thriller Breakout in 2013, with supporters primed for his major Hollywood comeback for several months, due to the fact he went viral in a uncommon job interview on TikTok past yr.

Fraser explained to Wide range in a piece revealed very last week that he took on this position of Charlie in The Whale to press himself.

“I required to know what I was able of,” he said.

Fraser, who has not experienced any key roles in extra than a 10 years, said he desired to completely immerse himself in Charlie’s character and grow to be “unrecognisable”.

“If there is no threat, then why hassle?” Fraser reported. “I want to find out from the individuals I’m doing work with at this issue in my vocation.

“I’ve experienced such range, a ton of substantial highs and minimal lows, so what I’m eager for, in the second 50 percent of my time accomplishing this, is to experience like I’m contributing to the craft and I’m understanding from it.

“This is a prime chance. I needed to disappear into it. My hope was that I would turn out to be unrecognisable.”

The actor also has had roles this yr in Martin Scorsese’s most recent western movie Killers Of The Flower Moon and played the top antagonist in HBO’s now-cancelled Batgirl motion picture as Garfield Lynns – the villain known as Firefly.