Brendan Fraser’s performance in The Whale has garnered a lot of critical acclaim, including Golden Globe and Oscar nominations and a SAG Award, and kicked off a long overdue Brennaissance.
And there’s no doubt that the praise is well deserved.
But Fraser’s casting as Charlie, a 600-pound man who deals with his past trauma by binge-eating, raises an important question that reaches far beyond this one film: Why are we still putting actors in fat suits?
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