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A24 stunned moviegoers in late July when it debuted the first look at Brendan Fraser in Darren Aronofsky’s \u201cThe Whale.\u201d The drama, adapted from Samuel D. Hunter’s play of the same name, features Fraser under up to 300 pounds of prosthetics in order to play a man struggling with severe obesity. A new report on the film published by Vanity Fair confirms that Fraser’s prosthetics were created by Adrien Morot, who worked with the director on \u201cNoah\u201d and who also worked on \u201cThe Revenant\u201d and \u201cX-Men: Days of Future Past.\u201d Morot used a digital sculpture and a 3D printer to make Fraser’s prosthetic suit for \u201cThe Whale.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at other body suits that had been used in comedies over the years, usually for a one-note joke,\u201d Fraser told Vanity Fair about the suit. \u201cWhether intended or not, the joke is, it defies gravity. This was not that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fraser called the prosthetic suit \u201cbeautiful and arresting,\u201d but wearing it on set each day of filming was a different story. The actor said transforming into his \u201cThe Whale\u201d character was \u201ccumbersome, not exactly comfortable,\u201d adding, \u201cThe torso piece was almost like a straight jacket with sleeves that went on, airbrushed by hand, to look identical as would human skin, right down to the hand-punched hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

As reported by Vanity Fair: \u201cFraser carried anywhere from 50 to 300 extra pounds during filming, per Aronofsky, depending on the scene’s contents; further, Charlie is severely limited in mobility. (Several people were always on hand to assist Fraser in standing up, sitting down, wheeling him across the 70 or so steps between the studio and the makeup room.) At the start of production, Fraser would spend five to six hours in a makeup chair, each day, to become Charlie; by the end, they got that hour count down to two to three.\u201d<\/p>\n