Brendan Fraser Brings American Canadian Actor S Career Defining Role To Tiff
When director Darren Aronofsky was looking for an actor to play the lead role in The Whale — a film about a 600-pound hermit who desperately tries to reconnect with an estranged daughter and heal from his traumatic history — he wasn’t really familiar with the project by Brendan Fraser. work. Sure, the actor was one of the most recognizable leading men of the ’90s — think Encino Man, School Ties and George of the Jungle — “but that was the generation after me, those movies,” said Aronofsky to CBC’s Eli Glasner....