‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast [Live] — Brendan Fraser (‘The Whale’)

Brendan Fraser, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in front of students at Chapman University, is a widely admired and much-beloved actor whose big screen work spans 30-plus years. In recognition of his 2022 portrayal of a morbidly obese man racing against the clock to reconcile with his estranged daughter in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, the 54-year-old is now, for the first time, an Oscar nominee.The Los Angeles Times once said of Fraser, “He exudes a masculine and earnest accessibility, a throwback charm that hearkens to an earlier Hollywood era and brings to mind names like Flynn and Gable,” while GQ opined, “He exudes a kind of solid decency and equanimity that makes the implausible plausible. His presence in a scene makes you believe it.” All of this made him into what The Guardian described in 2008 as “one of...