Is his Charlie character consciously killing himself with food? Here's why the Oscar-nominated actor doesn't think so.
Brendan Fraser didn’t get many awards as a boy. “I think the only prize I won was a bowling trophy in the fourth grade,” he says during a video call in early February. “It was for participation, I’m pretty sure — and they misspelled my name. It was like ‘Branten Fushner’ or something.”The “this” he’s referring to is Oscar season, which this year has very much found him at its center.
“He is clearly encumbered by his body,” Fraser says. “And when the body has weight on it like that, it compresses the lungs. Breathing is a huge issue for people with obesity — there’s sometimes a rattle and a wheeze in the lungs. So his voice is pinched and fraught for all those reasons, but mostly because of the emotionality of the character.
But although Charlie has congestive heart failure and just days to live, Fraser rejects the notion that the character is consciously killing himself through overeating. “He is not someone who has a death wish,” he insists. “He is someone who has gone through a great deal of emotional turmoil, and food-as-medicine is the wrong medicine for what really is ailing him — that’s just trying to fill the void of trauma, and that trauma is represented by the size of the body he carries with him.
Still, the clear compassion Fraser has for this lonely soul doesn’t prevent him from being affected by those complaints. Creative people learn to develop a thick skin to handle rejection and criticism. But talking to Fraser, he seems to have chosen to remain unshielded — that openness has informed the often-buoyant characters he’s played, but it’s just as apparent in Charlie, a mournful man whose hurt is etched all over his face.
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