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Brendan Fraser could not maintain again the tears as he accepted the 2023 SAG Award for greatest main actor in a movie for his position in “The Whale” on Feb. 26.
After Fraser was handed the award, he joked round as he appeared on the trophy itself, a statue of an actor. “This is sweet, a form of bare man making up his thoughts to smile or to frown,” he joked. “You know, like an actor.” “I’ll treasure this,” he continued, pointing to the statue. “But by no means greater than what I treasured that I used to maintain in my pockets, which was my SAG card that I earned in 1991. It made me really feel like I belonged. We’re actors, all of us need to really feel like we belong to a tribe. And that is the place I discovered that I belonged.”
“If you advised that man again then that I’d be standing right here proper right here, proper now, I might not have believed you,” he continued. He then thanked “The Whale” director Darren Aronofsky, screenwriter and playwright Samuel D. Hunter, and his castmates Sadie Sink, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins, and Hong Chau; Chau was additionally nominated on Sunday night time.
“I by no means would have believed that I might have been provided the position of my life on this character Charlie in ‘The Whale,'” the “The Mummy” star continued. “He’s somebody who’s on a raft of regrets, however he is on a sea of hope, and I’ve been at that sea, and I’ve rode that wave currently, and it has been highly effective and good. And I’ve additionally had that wave drag me right down to the ocean flooring and dragged my face alongside there and wind[ed] up on some unusual seaside in a special world questioning the place am I now.”
“I simply need you to know, for actual, all of the actors on the market who’ve gone by means of that, who’re going by means of that, I understand how you are feeling, however imagine me, should you simply keep in there and put one foot in entrance of the opposite, you will get to the place you must go. Have braveness,” he mentioned. Fraser has been open about his battle with despair previously and disappeared out of the Hollywood highlight for a while.
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“Without the love of my youngsters, Griffin, Holden, and Leland; and their supermom, Afton; and my badass agent, Joanne Colonna; and the clarion name that’s my lady, Jeanne, I would not be capable of do any of this,” he mentioned. He thanked the viewers once more and added of the statue, “I’m gonna go discover this man some pants now.”
Fraser’s date for the night time was his girlfriend, Jeanne Moore, whom he was first publicly linked to in 2022.
This award season, Fraser additionally gained greatest actor on the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards and the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards for his position in “The Whale.” In two weeks, he’ll face off towards Austin Butler, Colin Farrell, Paul Mescal, and Bill Nighy for the Oscar.