Brendan Fraser on The Whale: 'Don’t judge books by their cover'

The Oscar-tipped film has Fraser playing an obese character confined to his apartment 

Brendan Fraser in The Whale, opening in Ireland on Friday, Feb 3.  

When Brendan Fraser took on the role of Charlie, a father and English teacher living with severe obesity in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, he says he knew that he had a lot of work to do.

An unflinching character study of a man running out of time, The Whale — adapted by playwright Samuel D Hunter from his play of the same name — follows Charlie through five days in his life as he deals with congestive heart failure and comes to terms with the fact that he doesn’t have long left to make peace with his life.