Brendan Fraser dapper with partner Jeanne Moore promoting The Whale at Mill Valley Film Festival - Daily Mail

Brendan Fraser was snapped with his spouse Jeanne Moore astatine the Mill Valley Film Festival successful San Rafael, California Thursday, for a screening of his comeback movie The Whale.

Fraser, 53, donned a chromatic bluish suit with button-down achromatic apical and navy bluish tie. The Indianapolis, Indiana-born histrion rounded retired his ensemble with achromatic shoes.

Moore, who made her archetypal nationalist quality with Brendan astatine the Venice Film Festival past month, looked beauteous successful a mint greenish formal with plunging apical and a acheronian bluish clutch. She wore her blonde locks backmost and donned a airy furniture of constitution connected the evening.

Fraser, who has besides been seen successful films specified arsenic Encino Man, The Mummy and Crash, appears to beryllium successful the midst of a full-fledged vocation comeback with his show successful the Darren Aronofsky-directed question picture.

His show arsenic a morbidly-obese teacher named Charlie successful the play has garnered monolithic buzz, arsenic helium received an extended lasting ovation pursuing the film's premiere astatine the Venice Film Festival past month. 

Since its premiere past month, The Whale has earned rave reviews from critics, and has kickstarted Brendan's comeback aft helium stepped retired of the spotlight pursuing struggles with depression.

In footage shared connected societal media pursuing the film's screening, Brendan fought backmost tears arsenic helium received a lengthy lasting ovation. 

The movie marks the legendary star's comeback aft grappling with slump pursuing a assertion of intersexual battle and being successful and retired of infirmary for wellness issues.

The Whale is simply a intelligence play which saw Brendan acquisition a carnal transformation, arsenic helium plays a 600-pound antheral confined to a wheelchair, a relation for which helium besides had to deterioration prosthetics.

Its authoritative synopsis reads: 'A reclusive English teacher suffering from terrible obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage girl for 1 past accidental astatine redemption.'

The movie is acceptable to deed theaters connected December 9, and marks Brendan's archetypal pb relation successful a movie since straight-to-DVD thriller Breakout successful 2013, starring galore fans to judge this is his comeback.

Fraser changeable to stardom erstwhile helium was formed successful children's favourite movie franchises George of the Jungle and The Mummy.

His unbelievably chiseled physique earnt him a presumption arsenic a Hollywood heartthrob arsenic helium thrashed astir the sets performing stunts successful high-action roles.

But Fraser revealed successful a aboriginal interrogation the toll the stunts had taken connected his body.

He told GQ in 2018 that erstwhile helium filmed the 3rd installment successful The Mummy franchise, helium was being taped up and was icing injuries successful betwixt takes.

Speaking from his location successful Bedford, New York, helium said the carnal toll of his roles made him consciousness similar a workhorse from the Orwell caller Animal Farm.

After rising to fame done the action-packed films, Fraser described his buff physique arsenic resembling 'a walking steak'.

However, successful the aforesaid interrogation the histrion revealed helium believed helium had been blacklisted from Hollywood aft helium claimed helium had been sexually assaulted by the erstwhile president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Philip Berk, successful 2003.

Fraser claimed helium was leaving a luncheon hosted by the HFPA astatine the Beverly Hills Hotel successful Hollywood erstwhile Berk shook his hand.

Fraser said: 'His near manus reaches around, grabs my a** cheek, and 1 of his fingers touches maine successful the taint. And helium starts moving it around.'

He added: 'I felt ill. I felt similar a small kid. I felt similar determination was a shot successful my throat. I thought I was going to cry.'

Fraser claimed helium was capable to region Berk's manus earlier moving retired of the edifice and going consecutive home. He told his past wife, Afton Smith, astir the incidental but ne'er made it public.

Instead, his reps asked Berk for a written apology, which helium provided, but did not admit immoderate wrongdoing.

Speaking to GQ astir the claims, Berk acknowledged helium had written a missive of apology to Fraser but insisted helium had not done thing incorrect and dismissed Fraser's relationship arsenic 'a full fabrication'.

After Fraser reported the assertion to the HFPA helium said helium believed helium whitethorn person been 'blacklisted' and was seldom invited backmost to the Golden Globe awards.

Fraser said the incidental had caused him to 'retreat' arsenic helium spiraled into depression.

He described feeling 'not worthy' arsenic the decennary wore on, starring him to instrumentality roles helium was little arrogant of.