“I was dilapidated, my brain was failing”: Brendan Fraser Risked His Life to Lose Weight for His Movie, Claims He Started Losing His Memory
There is much buzz around Brendan Fraser as he has been praised for his most recent film, The Whale. The actor has been nominated for a Golden Globe award for his role and can be set for Oscars in 2023 as well. He is best known for his roles in blockbuster movies, comedies, and dramatic movies, most notably The Mummy, and George of the Jungle. However, with The Whale, he has broken through Hollywood’s doors after almost 20 years of ostracism.
Brendan Fraser’s performance in The Whale marked the pinnacle of his career. Still, he underwent another transformation following the film regarding his weight loss journey, which risked his life. However, the actor also opened up about his strict diet for the movie George of the Jungle, which caused him to suffer temporary memory loss.
Brendan Fraser’s Strict Diet For George Of The Jungle Physic
After becoming one of the most recognized faces in cinema worldwide to vanishing altogether, Brendan Fraser, 54, is once again a public figure with many questioning his past life, diet, and incredible physique. The actor explained to Variety in an interview about his intense regime for achieving his impressive body in George of the Jungle, which was a diet with no carbohydrates.
Fraser said,
“I was waxed and starved of carbohydrates. I would drive home after work and stop to get something to eat. I needed some cash one day, and I went to the ATM, and I couldn’t remember my PIN number because my brain was misfiring. Banging on the thing. I didn’t eat that night.”
The muscular body Fraser gained for the movie may have looked incredible, but his memory was messed up. Aside from forgetting things and feeling disoriented, the actor described the damage the diet was doing to his brain. In addition to stressing that his long-term health had not been affected, he also explained that he had many problems at the time.
Brendan Fraser’s The Whale Weight Gain Journey
In playing his 600-pound character Charlie in the Venice Film Festival premiering movie The Whale, Brendan Fraser said he needed to learn how to move differently. In Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, Fraser played Charlie, a man struggling with congestive heart failure who slowly eats himself to death. After leaving his wife and then eight-year-old daughter, Ellie, Charlie begins a relationship with Alan, a former night-school student who became the love of his life, but Charlie eats to deal with the pain of losing the love of his life.
Fraser said in a press during the movie premier,
“I developed muscles I did not know I had.”
“I even felt a sense of vertigo at the end of the day when all the appliances were removed; it was like stepping off the dock onto a boat in Venice. That [sense of] is undulating. It gave me an appreciation for those whose bodies are similar. You need to be incredibly strong mentally and physically to inhabit that physical being.”
The charming actor put on up to 600-pound for his role in the movie. In 2018, Fraser revealed that years of performing his acts and being physically violated by a prominent Hollywood figure ended his acting career and left him depressed and miserable.
The Whale was released in theaters on December 9, 2022, and broke a box office record for 2022.
Source: Variety
