The Whale Director Darren Aronofsky: Fatphobia Criticism “Makes No Sense”

The Whale, an awards-season contender starring Brendan Fraser as a morbidly obese man making amends while living out his final days, is being called an “exercise in empathy” by its director, Darren Aronofsky. But despite that billing, the film has been met with criticism—for Fraser wearing a fat suit in the role of Charlie and how the character’s experience has been depicted onscreen. Following the movie’s Venice Film Festival premiere, Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson wrote in his review that Charlie’s current existence is told with “a kind of leering horror, a portrait of a man gone to catastrophic ruin so… Read Full Article