![]() Writer and Maintenance Phase podcaster Aubrey Gordon also expressed her disappointment in the film during a series of tweets in September that called the movie out for having a “staggeringly” anti-fat premise. “So when they go time and time again and cast someone like Brendan Fraser, me and the other big queer guys, we’re like, ‘What the…?’ We can’t take it!” ![]() “To finally have a chance to be in a prestige film that might be award-nominated, where stories about people who look like us are being told? That’s the dream,” Franzese said. He said he was “conflicted” because he loves Fraser and wants him to have his moment but the casting choice represents a wider issue. ![]() These painstaking efforts taken to emulate Charlie’s physical shape left some plus-size, gay actors questioning why Fraser-a heterosexual actor who weighs much less than his character-secured the role.ĭaniel Franzese, an actor best known for his role as Damien in Mean Girls (2004), told People he and other larger gay actors are generally overlooked for roles, even when they have the direct life experience. Fraser added that “the torso piece was almost like a straight jacket” and he often needed mobility assistance from the crew. Some have also called Fraser’s transformation into Charlie, with the use of a fatsuit, dehumanizing, pointing out that fat people can’t take off their weight at the end of the day in the way the actors can, and that fat actors were overlooked when casting the role.įraser told Vanity Fair that Charlie was brought to life after five or six hours in a makeup chair, using a metamorphic prosthetic suit that was “not exactly comfortable” and carrying around 50 to 300 extra pounds during various scenes. Some of the film’s critics believe it perpetuates tired tropes of fat people as suffering, chronically depressed and binge eating. Why is The Whale being accused of fatphobia?
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