Hollywood icon Brendan Fraser has always been a hunk – and his weight gain for hit flick The Whale hardly changed that.
Brendan rapidly gained weight to prepare for the role, playing morbidly obese man Charlie who is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
The film focuses around online English teacher Charlie, who is teetering towards death as he struggles to connect with his teenage daughter – played by Stranger Things star Sadie Sink.
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Now The Whale is up for an Oscar and Brendan has noticeably slimmed down once more as he collects various awards for the huge achievement.
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The Mummy actor couldn’t put all of Charlie’s 270lbs on by himself, however, and his final appearance was boosted with the use of a fat suit and prosthetics.
Opening up in a Newsweek interview about the process, Brendan explained: “It’s gonna be like something you haven’t seen before. That’s really all I can tell you… The wardrobe and costume was extensive, seamless, cumbersome.”
Explaining more at GalaxyCon in Raleigh last year, he added: “The real task was to authentically create this character with all the tools we have with makeup, prosthetics, suit building, and a little bit of CGI to ensure that the shape of this man’s body obeys the laws of physics and gravity.”
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His new role comes after Brendan took a step back from Hollywood after sustaining injuries in the third Mummy movie.
He required multiple surgeries afterwards, undergoing a laminectomy. His lumbar didn’t take, and had to be redone a year later.
Brendan also had a partial knee replacement and operations on his back to bolt various compressed spinal pads together. Along with having his vocal cords repaired, the star was under the weather for seven years.
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Despite his injuries, Brendan has bounced back from his Hollywood weight gain and looked incredibly slimmed down at this year’s Critics Choice Awards.
The star appeared in a navy blue suit with silk lapels and a bow tie as he stepped up on stage to collect the Best Actor gong with the muscles of his neck clearly visible.
But The Whale isn’t the first time Brendan has been forced to adapt his diet for a film role.
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When filming George of the Jungle in 1997, the star underwent a “starvation” diet to get in shape for the flick, telling Adam Sandler during Variety’s Actors on Actors series: “I was waxed, greased, starved of carbohydrates.
“I would drive home after work and stop to get something to eat. I needed some cash one day, and I went to the ATM, and I couldn’t remember my PIN number because my brain was misfiring. Banging on the thing. I didn’t eat that night.”
Speaking of his extensive career – stunts and all – he confirmed to GQ: “I believe I probably was trying too hard, in a way that’s destructive.”
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