Brendan Fraser won Best Actor at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards

brendan fraser —the 1990s Hollywood star—surprised with his return to awards season in famous fashion, winning Best Actor for his role in The Whalethe most recent film of Darren Aronofsky.

Through tears, the actor thanked for being selected for the project, for being nominated, and for working with talented people like Hong Chau and Sadie Sink. “This movie is about love, redemption, it’s about finding the light in the dark place and I’m very lucky to have worked with this cast,” he acknowledged.

The presence of the 57-year-old actor captivated his admirers and detractors by standing out on the red carpet at the Critics Choice Awards 2023, after not attending the eightieth installment of the Golden Globeswhere he was also nominated for Best Actor in a Drama.

“If you are fighting against adversity or you are in a dark place, I want you to know that if you have the energy to stand up, you can get ahead,” said who left the industry for more than a decade, after being discredited after experience sexual harassment.

Despite the fact that the attendance of the protagonist of The Mummymade an impact when he appeared at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, amid the acclamations that The WhaleFraser and aranofsky They have received.

The film also features performances by Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins and Hong Chau, who have also been part of the favorable reviews that the project has received.

The Whale tells the story of a man weighing almost 300 kilograms with self-esteem problems, depression and who eats non-stop, waiting for his own death; is about Charliemade by brendan fraser. Charlie broke up every relationship in his life, including his ex-wife and his teenage daughter (Sadie Sink).

The story is based on the play of the same name by Samuel D. Hunter. In Aronofsky’s story, Charlie is a teacher who left his wife after falling in love with one of his students. The protagonist tries to rebuild his relationship with his daughter, whom he abandoned.

The latest production directed by Darren Aranofsky It marked the return of Fraser to Hollywood, after more than a decade of being out of the industry, accumulating failures and with a different body figure than the one he showed when he was one of the best actors in the 90s.

Now, Brendan reappears with a recovered physique and with a film that earned him a standing ovation for seven minutes at the Venice Film Festival. “I’m just trying to hold on today (…) Thank you for this wonderful welcome; I want this film to cause the same deep impression that it did on me”, revealed the actor.

His decline began after various injuries he suffered while playing his role as George of the Jungle. It was his effort and refusal to use stuntmen that began to drive him away from Hollywood. divorced him from afton smith in 2017, as well as depression after being harassed by the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), phillip berkwas what sank him.

According to what Brendan stated for GQ Magazine, it was two years before Berk became president of the HFPA that he approached Brendan to greet him, when he took the opportunity to pinch his behind and touch his genitals. At the time, Fraser’s accusation was dismissed by the HFPA, so the actor fell into a deep depression.

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