Brendan Fraser: My son helped me connect with my obese character in 'The Whale' - New York Post

Brendan Fraser revealed that his lad helped him link with his morbidly obese quality successful his newest film, “The Whale.”

Fraser plays a 600-pound English teacher named Charlie who struggles to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter, played by “Stranger Things” prima Sadie Sink.

The actor, 53, reflected connected surviving with his eldest lad Griffin, 20, arsenic helium discussed the role.

“He conscionable turned 20. He’s a large kid, he’s 6-foot-5. He’s got large hands and feet, a large body. I recognize intimately what it is to beryllium adjacent to a idiosyncratic who lives with obesity,” Fraser told Interview magazine.

Griffin is the eldest of Fraser’s 3 sons (including Holden, 18, and Leland, 16) with his ex-wife Afton Smith.

Fraser explained that his lad Griffin, who has autism, is besides the happiest idiosyncratic helium knows. “Because of the quality of his spectrum — telephone it a upset if you will, I disagree with you — helium knows thing of irony,” Fraser said.

Fraser plays a 600-pound English teacher named Charlie who struggles to reconnect with his estranged teenage girl successful “The Whale.” A24

“He doesn’t cognize what cynicism is. You can’t insult him. He can’t insult you. He’s the happiest idiosyncratic and is, successful my beingness and galore others’, besides the manifestation of love.”

The histrion explained that his narration with Griffin and his household helped him to subordinate to his character, for which helium has been highly praised.

“Being with my kids and their ma and our household has fixed maine specified emotion that if ever I needed to clasp thing of worth up to effort and construe that to what was important to Charlie [character successful ‘The Whale’], I didn’t person to look far,” Fraser said.

A24 released the first authoritative trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” earlier this month, aft the movie received agelong lasting ovations astatine respective movie festivals.

The movie premiered astatine the Venice International Film Festival, wherever Fraser broke down successful tears during a six-minute lasting ovation for his performance. “The Whale” hits theaters connected Dec. 9.

The movie marks Fraser’s vocation comeback to Hollywood aft stepping distant owed to depression. In 2018, helium revealed that a erstwhile Hollywood Foreign Press Association president allegedly sexually assaulted him in 2003. 

He has since refused to be the Golden Globes, adjacent if helium is nominated for his role.