Director Darren Aronofsky dives deep on “The Whale,” fatphobia, human connection and how he feels about Brendan Fraser and Sadie Sink.
Darren Aronofsky is known for directing dark, provocative, divisive films such as “Requiem for a Dream” and “Black Swan,” but in “The Whale,” he sees hope, “human connection and a belief in the human spirit.”
“Limitless” does have a direct connection to my fiction work. I made a film back in 2006 with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz called “The Fountain,” which was about a man searching for eternal life. And back then, longevity science was kind of a joke. There was actually a line in the film that Hugh says, where he goes, “Death is a disease and I will cure it.” And I actually cut it out of the film because I thought it was ridiculous and people would laugh at it.
I was deeply moved by the play. And so the next day, I reached out to Sam, and we got together. And I knew it would be a challenge to turn this into cinema, but — the amazing thing about movies, what Ilove about cinema is that it is this great exercise in empathy and that you can watch a movie about any person in the world, and if it’s an honest, truthful portrayal, you will be brought into their life, into their circumstance. Because we’re all human.
There were so many things to that performance that are hard to really relate. But if you think about someone who actually weighs 600 pounds, every time they stand up, they are pressing 600 pounds. They’re incredibly strong people to do that. Brendan had to create that and create that illusion of that.
And the feedback we’ve been getting from the OAC, the Obesity Action Coalition, which also was with us the entire way, and they really feel this is going to open up people’s eyes. You gotta remember, people in this community, they get judged by doctors when they go to get medical help. They get judged everywhere they go on the planet, by most people.
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