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James Corden 'narrowly missed out' on playing a 600-pound obese man for the lead role in the critically-acclaimed film The Whale starring Brendan Fraser

Director Darren Aronofsky has a way of opening up performers to new emotional depths, explorations of inner pain that often seem to surprise even the actors themselves. So it has been with "The Whale," featuring a celebrated lead performance by Brendan Fraser.

‘Black Swan’ filmmaker claimed that ‘people with obesity are generally written as bad guys or as punchlines’

Man overboard.

Before there was 'Requiem for a Dream,' there was an anime classic.

When the camera looks at Brendan Fraser in "The Whale," what does it see? It sees a man named Charlie who weighs 600 pounds and is slowly expiring from congestive heart failure in a dimly lit Idaho apartment. It also sees a familiar Hollywood face attached to a most unfamiliar…

The actor and director are joined by screenwriter Samuel D Hunter to discuss career comebacks, the hazards of Hollywood and the importance of human connection

Charlie is a college writing instructor who never leaves his apartment. He conducts his classes online, disabling his laptop camera so the students cannot see him.

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” adapted from the play by Samuel D. Hunter (who also wrote the screenplay), about an obese man reckoning with his life over the course of a week, is a morally and emotionally messy film. It is so challenging to puzzle out the muddled messaging of…