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Heartstopper’s Joe Locke ‘thrilled’ to make West End debut in Clarkston

The 21-year-old made his Broadway debut in Sweeney Todd last year.

Evening Standard

Yeoh, Fraser feel the love at Vanity Fair post-Oscars party

Newly minted Academy Award winners kicked up their heels at post-Oscars parties

The Independent UK

The Whale is not a masterpiece – it’s a joyless, harmful fantasy of fat squalor

The Oscar nomination for The Whale must mean it’s great, right? Wrong! It is a shallow and stigmatising reflection of thin people’s assumptions about fat bodies

The Guardian - UK

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The Whale director Darren Aronofsky reveals why he cast Brendan Fraser and responds to accusations of fatphobia

Director Darren Aronofsky spent years searching for someone to play the English teacher with severe obesity at the centre of his film. But the film has been accused of fatphobia.

ABC News

The Whale: Brendan Fraser's comeback offers rare representation of the fat queer male body on screen

The Whale debuted at the 2022 Venice Film Festival to a six-minute standing ovation for its Academy Award-nominated lead, Brendan Fraser, who has returned to the big screen after a considerable hiatus.

The Conversation

The Whale is being lauded as Brendan Fraser's comeback, but even his Oscar-nominated performance can't evade its flaws

The Mummy star is an Oscars frontrunner for his role as a morbidly obese teacher in The Whale, but not even his affecting performance can quite transcend this flawed film.

ABC News

Brendan Fraser, Oscar-nominated star of The Whale, says film can save people's lives

In Brendan Fraser's latest film, he plays Charlie, a man suffering from severe obesity. Despite polarising reviews, he says he's been told his Oscar-nominated role as Charlie will save lives.

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Darren Aronofsky on his obesity drama The Whale: ‘When actors start, they all want to cry’

The director talks frankly about making films that don’t spare the feelings of performers or audiences

Financial Times

The 'cathartic release' of 'The Whale' explained by the play's actors and directors

The movie version of "The Whale" ends with a breath, a bright light and a beach. The last visual shows the sun shining, the tide rising and falling, and a younger, slimmer version of the title character, Charlie, staring out into the ocean as his daughter plays in the sand…

Los Angeles Times

‘The Whale’ review: Brendan Fraser does his best with a movie that lays the pathos on thick

I’m of two minds about “The Whale.” I don’t like it; that’s one mind. Yet I love what it has done for its star, Brendan Fraser, a highly likely Oscar nominee come early 2023 and — as he has been since the early 1990s — a wonderful actor.

Chicago Tribune

The Whale: everything you need to know about the UK release date, cast, plot and Brendan Fraser’s Oscar buzz

Darren Aronofsky’s psychological drama film received a standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival

Evening Standard

‘All that hyperventilating makes you dizzy’: Brendan Fraser and Darren Aronofsky on The Whale

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

The Guardian - UK

'The Whale' review: Body issues

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.

Bangkok Post

Winter movie preview: Season bringing holiday fare, Oscar hopefuls and, at last, the first sequel to ‘Avatar’

The next couple of months are as busy as they get at theaters — and at the theater in your living room.

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The Guardian - UK

Venice film festival 2022 week two roundup – discomfort and joy

A mood of theatricality prevailed at this year’s edition – a bleak but furiously cinematic Marilyn Monroe biopic and a forbiddingly austere French courtroom drama being the most distinctive offerings

Evening Standard

Brendan Fraser: role taught me severely obese people are ‘incredibly strong’

The actor’s latest role in upcoming film The Whale has taught him some lessons

Asharq Al-Awsat

Brendan Fraser Celebrated for Comeback Role in ‘The Whale’

Brendan Fraser is having a moment at the Venice International Film Festival. The once ubiquitous movie star of “The Mummy” franchise and “George of the Jungle” had, in the last decade, backed away from the spotlight.

Daily Mirror

Brendan Fraser sobs as comeback film The Whale receives six-minute standing ovation

Actor Brendan Fraser was given a rousing reception for his movie comeback The Whale which sees the former George of the Jungle star playing an overweight father who struggles to reconnect with his teenage daughter. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend

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The Independent UK

Brendan Fraser celebrated for comeback role in 'The Whale'

Brendan Fraser is having a moment at the Venice International Film Festival

The Guardian - UK

Brendan Fraser: role taught me severely obese people are ‘incredibly strong’

Actor says lead role of Charlie in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale is ‘most heroic man I have ever played’

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