Producer Richard Dawson responded to criticism for casting Brendan Fraser as Charlie in the 2022 drama 'The Whale,' in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Brendan Fraser tells Fox News Digital what his Critics Choice Awards win means to him and why making "The Whale" was an "act of faith."
Brendan Fraser portrays a depressed college professor trying to rekindle his relationship with his daughter while struggling with morbid obesity in 2022's"The Whale." "Darren considered everybody, and over different phases of the film, different people and ideas were looked at," Dawson told The Hollywood Reporter, asserting that he and Fraser, along with director Darren Aronofsky and writer Samuel D. Hunter gathered real-world perspectives and experiences from those struggling with obesity and even worked closely the Obesity Action Coalition during the filmmaking process.
"Actors have been using makeup since the beginning of acting — that's one of their tools, and the lengths we went to to portray the realism of the make-up has never been done before. One of my first calls after casting Brendan was to my makeup artist, Adrien Morot. I asked him, 'Can we do something that's realistic?' Because if it's going to look like a joke, then we shouldn't do it," he said.
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