Brendan Fraser Hangs Out At BAFTA Tea Party After Filming ‘The Whale’

Brendan Fraser, 54, confirmed off his weight reduction after dropping the kilos he placed on for his unimaginable movie The Whale, on the BAFTA Tea Party in Beverly Hills, CA on Saturday. The gifted actor posed on the crimson carpet of the occasion in a lightweight grey go well with and darkish blue tie in addition to black footwear. He additionally rocked a pair of glasses and gave a smile to cameras capturing the epic second.

In addition to posing solo, Brendan posed together with his beautiful companion Jeanne Moore. She wore an extended sleeveless crimson gown and had her lengthy blonde hair down as she held onto his arm and flashed a giant smile. She additionally held silver clutch purse and added light-colored pointy heels to her look.

Brendan’s BAFTA look comes after he made lasting impressions together with his function of Charlie, a 600-pound English trainer who’s trying to reconnect together with his 17-year-old estranged daughter. The movie is predicated on 2012 play written by Samuel D. Hunter, and Brendan needed to achieve weight and put on a fats go well with to remodel into the fitting measurement to play the character.

“I developed muscles I did not know I had,” he advised journalists, together with one for Variety, at a press convention in Venice in Sept., forward of the film’s world premiere. “I even felt a sense of vertigo at the end of the day when all the appliances were removed; it was like stepping off the dock onto a boat in Venice. That [sense of] undulating. It gave me appreciation for those whose bodies are similar. You need to be an incredibly strong person, mentally and physically, to inhabit that physical being.”

Darren Aronofsky, who directed The Whale, additionally defined why he selected Brendan to play the unimaginable half, regardless that he had been out of the general public eye for some time. “It took me 10 years to make the movie and that’s because it took me 10 years to cast the film. Casting Charlie was a huge challenge for many different reasons,” he defined.

“I considered everyone — all types of different actors, every single movie star on the planet. But none of them ever really clicked,” he continued. “It just didn’t move me, or feel right. A couple years ago, I caught a trailer from a Brazilian movie, a low-budget [movie], and I saw Brendan in the trailer and a lightbulb went off. I hadn’t seen ‘Gods and Monsters’ or ‘George of the Jungle.’ Seeing him in there, it just clicked. I asked Brendan to come meet me…it just kept clicking.”

Brendan’s impactful function led to a nomination for a Golden Globe Award. Although he didn’t find yourself profitable, the star by no means deliberate on going to the ceremony. “I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” he advised GQ journal final 12 months, referring to a earlier declare he made about being sexually assaulted by former HFPA president Philip Berk.