It was pretty clear that the Golden Globes weren’t going to award Brendan Fraser, but otherwise, the road to the Oscar is quite clearwith permission from Austin Butler: Not only is his performance in ‘The Whale’ amazing, but the entire movie world is rooting for his story of redemption. And the first of the steps towards the statuette has been achieved at the Critics Choice Awardswhere his speech brought tears to the entire audience.
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“I was in the desert and I probably should have left a trail of breadcrumbs, but you found me”, the actor told Darren Aronofsky, who returned him to top-level cinema after many years lost on television and films without impact. What’s more, Fraser believes that the director showed him the way. “You just showed me where to go to get where I needed to be”.
If, like Charlie, the character I play, you somehow struggle with obesity or feel like you’re in a dark sea, I want you to know that if you can have the strength to get up and go to the light, good things will happen.
Not even the music, warning of the end of the speech, could stop him: Fraser is in his moment of glory and does not want to leave anything in the pipeline just in case Butler prevails in a brutal duel and does not win the award in a few months. Another recent comeback, Ke Huy Quan, who won again for ‘All At Once Everywhere’ paving his way to the Oscar, congratulated Fraser after the ceremony. It is not trivial: both already knew each other from the filming of ‘The man from California’, thirty years ago. Two people forgotten by Hollywood who have come back in style. Nothing likes Hollywood more than a redemption story.