{"id":66650,"date":"2022-09-05T13:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brendan-fraser-says-he-felt-dizzy-after-removing-the-whale-fat-suit\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T13:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:15:57","slug":"brendan-fraser-says-he-felt-dizzy-after-removing-the-whale-fat-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brendan-fraser-says-he-felt-dizzy-after-removing-the-whale-fat-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser Says He Felt Dizzy After Removing &#8216;the Whale&#8217; Fat Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>Brendan Fraser said he felt &#8220;a sense of vertigo&#8221; removing his fat suit while filming &#8220;The Whale.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>During a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Fraser recalled acting in the heavy suit.<\/li>\n<li>He said that he now has an &#8220;appreciation&#8221; for people with &#8220;obesity.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-signup &#10;                        headline-regular loading\" id=\"formContainer\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-event-label=\"morning_brew\" data-list=\"Morning Brew\" data-acq-source=\"morningbrew\" data-origin=\"MorningBrew\" data-campaign=\"entertainment\">\n<section class=\"inline-newsletter-content\">\n<div class=\"js-loader hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"svg-icon \" version=\"1.1\" role=\"img\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 50 50;\" xml:space=\"preserve\">\n                        <title>loading<\/title>\n                        <desc>Something is loading.<\/desc>\n                        <path fill=\"#111\" d=\"M43.935,25.145c0-10.318-8.364-18.683-18.683-18.683c-10.318,0-18.683,8.365-18.683,18.683h4.068c0-8.071,6.543-14.615,14.615-14.615c8.072,0,14.615,6.543,14.615,14.615H43.935z\">\n                          <animatetransform attributetype=\"xml\" attributename=\"transform\" type=\"rotate\" from=\"0 25 25\" to=\"360 25 25\" dur=\"0.6s\" repeatcount=\"indefinite\"\/>\n                        <\/path>\n                      <\/svg><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>Brendan Fraser said that he felt &#8220;a sense of vertigo&#8221; when he removed his 300-pound fat suit while filming &#8220;The Whale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fraser stars in the upcoming movie as a 600-pound man called Charlie who tries to repair his relationship with his teenage daughter (Sadie Sink).  Darren Aronofsky, the director, told Vanity Fair that Fraser carried the extra weight of 50 to 300 pounds with his prosthetic suit during filming depending on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fraser said during a press conference for the movie at Venice Film Festival that the movie gave him an &#8220;appreciation&#8221; for people with obesity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s poetic that the trauma he carries is manifest in the physical weight of his body,&#8221; Fraser said.  &#8220;I needed to learn to absolutely move in a new way. I developed muscles I did not know that I had. I even felt a sense of vertigo, when at the end of the day all the appliances were removed, just as you would feel stepping off the boat onto the dock here in Venice \u2014 that undulating feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure image-figure-image  \" data-type=\"img\" data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\">\n<div class=\"lazy-holder \" style=\"padding-top: calc(100% * 1500 \/ 2000)\">\n<p>                          <img class=\"lazy-image \" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" data-content-type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcs=\"{&quot;https:\/\/i.insider.com\/619634bda2e68800198ad21a&quot;:{&quot;contentType&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;aspectRatioW&quot;:4,&quot;aspectRatioH&quot;:3}}\" alt=\"Brendan Fraser\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                          <noscript><br \/>\n                              <br \/>\n                          <\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                          <span class=\"image-source-caption \"><figcaption class=\"image-caption headline-bold\" data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\">\n<p>                              Brendan Fraser.<br \/>\n                            <\/figcaption><span class=\"image-source headline-regular\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\"><\/p>\n<p>                                Michael Tran\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                              <\/span><br \/>\n                          <\/span><br \/>\n                      <\/figure>\n<p>The 53-year-old actor continued: &#8220;And I say this because he gave me an appreciation for those whose bodies are similar because I learned that you need to be an incredibly strong person physically and mentally to inhabit that physical being. And I think that is Charlie, also.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fraser previously told Vanity Fair that wearing the fat suit was also uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 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,&#8221; Fraser said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Whale&#8221; premiered Sunday at the Venice Film Festival and received a six-minute standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh, Fraser &#8220;sobbed&#8221; during the applause.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet blockquote\" data-lang=\"en\" data-cards=\"\" data-conversation=\"\"><p>\u2014Ramin Setoodeh (@RaminSetoodeh) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mims\/statuses\/1566549735908974593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Fraser said he felt &#8220;a sense of vertigo&#8221; removing his fat suit while filming &#8220;The Whale.&#8221; During a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Fraser recalled acting in the heavy suit. He said that he now has an &#8220;appreciation&#8221; for people with &#8220;obesity.&#8221; loading Something is loading. 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