The first time Fraser saw Charlie’s prosthetic suit on a mannequin, it took his breath away. After 10 minutes of spending time with Charlie, that’s the breakthrough that we hope the film has. “Unfortunately, so many characters portrayed in the media who are living with obesity are treated awfully-either they’re humiliated, made fun of, or just living in squalor,” Aronofsky says. The film is not shy about showing compulsive binge eating as part of this man’s day-to-day life (and demise). In Aronofsky’s The Whale, we spend five days with Charlie. I’d never seen that story precisely told.” But I was self-medicating with food, and it was hard for me to live in the world as that person. “This is just my story-plenty of people out there are big and happy and healthy and just fine and worthy of respect. “I arrived at it through my own personal struggles with it, as I used to be a lot bigger,” Hunter says. The detail of Charlie living with life-threatening obesity, while reeling from the passing of his lover, came to Hunter later. In The Whale, Charlie makes a similar plea to his class, but more central-and painful-is his attempt to reach his daughter before it’s too late.
Out of one student’s heartbreaking response-“I think I need to accept that my life isn’t going to be very exciting”-Hunter wrote a play about a teacher like himself, desperate to connect with a younger person. One day, a frustrated Hunter asked his students to write something honest-it didn’t have to be of a certain length, or even particularly good. The job paid the rent, but it was uninspiring. He adds, “I wanted to know what I was capable of.”īack in his 20s, Hunter and his husband both worked as expository writing teachers at Rutgers University. My hope was that I would become unrecognizable.” I’ve had such variety, a lot of high highs and low lows, so what I’m keen for, in the second half of my time doing this, is to feel like I’m contributing to the craft and I’m learning from it. “I want to learn from the people I’m working with at this point in my career. “If there’s no risk, then why bother?” Fraser, now 53, says. “He said he wanted an actor to reintroduce,” Fraser says. Fraser has never played a role so outside of himself-exactly why Aronofsky wanted him to go on the ride. He later remembered Fraser’s edgier turns, such as Ian McKellen’s complex counterpart in Gods and Monsters, but his initial impression held water.
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Hunter tells me he wrestled with the Fraser casting idea after first hearing it he could only see The Mummy and George of the Jungle, the face that dominated movie posters from his teens and 20s.
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A megastar of ’90s and early-2000s movies, Fraser was the subject of a 2018 GQ profile that examined his retreat from the Hollywood mainstream of late, he’s inched his way back, in TV series like The Affair and Trust and films including the now defunct Batgirl and the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon.
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