The great return of Brendan Fraser after the sexual abuse and physical injuries that separated him from

Updated Monday, 5 September 2022 – 18:31The action scenes led him to undergo seven years of operations, the harassment he suffered from the journalist Philip Berk plunged him into a depression, but he has come back through the big door at the festival of Venice with ‘The Whale’ and sounds like a candidate for the Oscars. Brendan Fraser’s incredible physical change/Video: El MundoCine ‘The whale’: the ‘resurrection’ of an obese Brendan Fraser in Darren Aronofsky’s animated proposal Cine Kilos de more, hair loss… The shocking physical change of Brendan Fraser, the actor from ‘The Mummy’ At the end of the 90s Brendan Fraser (53) was one of the most sought-after and box office actors in Hollywood. Especially when he mixed comedy and adventure in titles like George of the Jungle, his first big hit with a gross of over $170 million, or The Mummy trilogy, whose three films topped $400 million at the box office. reaching stardom, the actor fell practically into oblivion after experiencing a series of physical problems, a complicated divorce and an episode of harassment that plunged him into a deep depression. Last year the actor returned to work and received critical acclaim for his roles on television but it has been now, at the Venice Film Festival, where Fraser has starred in his return through the front door with The Whale, the film by Darren Aronofsky for which he has received an ovation and has placed him in the running for the Oscars. They have been tough years for Fraser, whose refusal to use doubles in his films separated him from the industry for the first time, forced to undergo several operations. The sexual abuse he suffered from the influential journalist Philip Berk turned him into a plague and kept him away from acting a second time. In the words of the actor himself to GQ magazine: “I destroyed my body doing risk scenes.” As he explained, he was at a point in his career when he did not reject any project, because he thought he had to work nonstop. Also, insist on doing all of his action scenes yourself without the help of any stuntmen. “When I made the third installment of The Mummy [2008] I was wrapped with ice and bandages. I made myself an exoskeleton every day,” Fraser revealed. Pushing himself beyond the limits of his body, the American actor racked up a spinal disc injury, a broken rib, knee trauma and vocal cord problems, not to mention the many contusions he suffered.Over seven years he underwent various operations, including a laminectomy, which is a surgery designed to relieve pressure on the spine, several more operations on his back, and a bone replacement operation. The comings and goings of the hospital forced him to take his career in stride, which coincided with his divorce from actress Afton Smith, who, by the way, played a supporting role in George of the Jungle. Fraser and Smith married in 1993 at a party at Winona Ryder’s house, and Fraser and Smith married four years later in 1998. The couple had three children, Griffin (2002), Holden (2004), and Leland (2006), and almost a daughter. decade later, and In 2007, they announced their divorce, which lasted until 2009. Spousal support and child support were set at $900,000 a year, at a rate of $75,000 a month, but in 2013 Fraser requested a reduction. As he argued before the judge, his income had dropped while his medical bills had skyrocketed. But Smith accused him of trying to hide his true income. Fraser’s second retirement was prompted by sexual harassment. Encouraged by the #MeToo movement, in 2018 the actor confessed that the journalist Philip Berk, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, abused him during the summer of 2003 at the Beverly Hills hotel. As described in the same GQ interview cited above, two years before becoming president of the entity that awards the Golden Globes, Berk approached him at the hotel and with his left hand first grabbed one of his buttocks and, Later, she used one of her fingers to touch the area between his testicles and his anus. Berk himself recounted the incident in his memoir With Signs and Wonders, but in those pages he indicated that it was a joke. “It made me feel sick. I felt like a little kid. Like I had a ball in my throat. to cry,” explained Fraser, who acknowledged that he was afraid to tell what happened at that time because of the reaction of the people and to prevent it from marking his career. However, Fraser’s representatives demanded a written apology from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which Berk wrote. Still from The Mummy. The actor said that the incident made him a lonely person and forced him to withdraw from the public scene. . In addition, he believes that the Association placed him on a blacklist, since he was rarely invited back to the Golden Globes. , combined with his health problems and the rejection he suffered from the industry when denouncing the incident, caused another great hiatus in his career. But two years ago he managed to recover and return to action. All of Fraser’s revelations coincided with the release of Trust in 2018. Danny Boyle, director of films such as Trainspotting and its sequel, 28 days later, Slumdog Millionaire or 127 hours, produced and He directed a drama about the gruesome kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire Jean Paul Getty, an oil tycoon considered one of the most iconic and enigmatic figures of the 20th century. In the miniseries Fraser he played Fletcher Chace, a former CIA agent who is tasked by Getty to locate his grandson. Fraser and his girlfriend, Jeanne Moore, in Venice. GTRES In addition, he received praise for his work on The Affair, Condor, Doom Patrol and No Sudden Move, by Steven Soderbergh. But it has been now, with The Whale, when he has really resurfaced. Fraser attended the premiere with his new girlfriend, Jeanne Moore, and couldn’t hold back tears after receiving a six-minute standing ovation at the end of the screening.According to The Trust Project’s criteriaRead More