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Since the film’s world premiere at the Venice
film festival in September, Fraser has been predicted to be the
best actor winner for the 2023 Oscars.
The movie is an adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter play of the same
name that follows, Charlie, an extremely overweight man with
very limited mobility.
He is warned by his best friend, Liz, portrayed by Hong Chau
that he will die if he doesn’t get medical help.
"The hope is we can change hearts and minds about how we relate
to one another or don't relate to one another, how we may
dismiss one another, by simply by virtue of how we appear to one
another," Fraser told Reuters.
The "The Mummy" actor had to put on a heavy body suit as well as
prosthetics for the film. He said, "I had a lot of support from
almost a race car driving pit crew to help me stay cool and
hydrated".
Both Fraser and Sink feel as if they gained more insight into
the film after viewing it themselves.
“I knew intellectually what was going to happen, but I felt like
I was watching a film that I just didn't know anything about. It
transported me that way. It did,” Fraser said.
Sink explained, “I did the same thing. After I watched it for
the first time, I just started analyzing things and picking up
on things that maybe I didn't pick up on in the moment and it's
just really nice to be a part of a film like that you can just
endlessly dissect."
“The Whale” arrives in the U.S. theaters on Dec. 9.
(Reporting by Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway; Editing by
Aurora Ellis)
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