See Brendan Fraser in Gut-Wrenching, Emotional New Trailer for The Whale



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Brendan Fraser dives heavy successful the astir caller trailer for The Whale.

Written by means of Samuel D. Hunter and based wholly connected his 2012 play of the adjacent name, The Whale is directed by utilizing Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) and stars Fraser arsenic Charlie, a 600-lb. Reclusive penning teacher who tries to reconstruct his courting on with his estranged teenage daughter, Ellie (Stranger Things prima Sadie Sink).

Released done A24 connected Wednesday, the caller almost 2-minute preview offers viewers a person look astatine the strained courting betwixt Charlie and Ellie, and his effort to reconnect on with her aft years aside, arsenic his wellness starts offevolved to fail.

"I privation to cognize that I person accomplished 1 facet due with my life!" Charlie yells thru tears adjacent the springiness up of the trailer, arsenic helium seems to beryllium connected to supplemental oxygen assist.

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On Sunday, Entertainment Weekly mentioned that The Whale had the large restricted opening of immoderate movie successful 2022 aft it debuted successful Los Angeles and New York City implicit the weekend.

It bought retired screenings successful immoderate respect six movie theaters it performed in implicit the play and grossed $360,000 total, according to the hole.

The Whale averaged $60,000 successful terms tag income for each show it played connected successful that clip period, which makes for Aronofsky's first-class container-office starting fixed that his 2010 movie Black Swan, for which celebrated idiosyncratic Natalie Portman received an Academy Award for Best Actress, according to EW, which noted manufacturing organisation A24 and Comscore.

Fraser received other important popularity of his show wrong the caller movie Monday arsenic helium go nominated for pleasant histrion successful a drama astatine the imminent 2023 Golden Globes, aft having taken home an histrion grant astatine the Toronto International Film Festival's TIFF Tribute Awards successful September.

While Fraser appears to beryllium an aboriginal favored this awards season, a fewer person expressed trouble implicit his casting arsenic an obese antheral and whether the film's sanction is intended arsenic an insult.

However, Hunter informed Variety successful a caller interrogation that The Whale is intended to consult Charlie's obsession with "a selected insubstantial connected Moby Dick," explaining that it "deliberately pokes astatine immoderate people's prejudices."

"I wasn't amazed by the blowback, owed to the records of the mode that obesity is treated connected movie. And we unrecorded successful cynical and reactionary instances," added Hunter, who besides wrote the film's script.

He besides informed EW successful October that helium understands immoderate of the absorption to The Whale, arsenic "the past of portraying quality beings struggling with obesity successful cinema isn't fantabulous — they're fundamentally gadgets of derision oregon jokes, oregon they're perfectly one-dimensional."

Hunter said helium wants the movie to beryllium "an invitation" for visitors "to stroll successful this doorway and beryllium with this man," explaining, "If you bash instrumentality that invitation and walk internal, I presume you volition find that that is the diametric other of the mode value problems has historically been portrayed and treated successful cinema."

The Whale, gambling successful prime theaters now, opens nationalist Dec. 21.