Moving Trailer for Brendan Fraser and Darren Aronofsky's THE WHALE
The first trailer has been released for Brendan Fraser’s upcoming film The Whale. We’ve been hearing so much about this movie, especially about the performance that Fraser delivers in the film. In fact, he received a six-minute standing ovation at the Cannes film festival for this movie, which brought him to tears.
This trailer gives us our first real look at the movie, and it looks like it’s going to tell quite a moving, emotional, and inspiring story about a struggling obese 600-pound man who is looking to reconnect with his 17-year-old daughter.
The project comes from directed Darren Aronofsky, and it’s based on Samuel D. Hunter‘s critically-acclaimed 2012 play of the same name. It tells the story of a reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity. The six-hundred-pound recluse is hiding away from the world and slowly eating himself to death. He is given one last chance at redemption as he attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
This is Aronofsky’s first movie as a director since he made Mother!. The movie also stars Stranger Things star Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead) and Ty Simpkins (Insidious, Iron Man 3).
When talking about the character he plays, Fraser said the role was a chance to "step into the physical being of another man and tell the rich internal life story that he carries. Charlie is the most heroic man I have ever played because his superpower is to seek the good in others and bring that out in them. In that process, he’s on his journey of salvation."
Director Darron Aronofsky added: "People are incapable of not caring. I think that's the most important message to put out in the world right now. Everyone's leaning into the cynicism and the darkness and giving up hope, and it's exactly what we don't need right now. We have to lean into that underneath it all we all do care about each other and that's really what we have to hold on to and prove to each other."
The Whale will be released in theaters on December 9th.