Brendan Fraser’s Best Actor Oscar acceptance speech was not only full of whale metaphors, but also full of thanks to his family. the actor of The whale He named his three sons: Holden, Leland, and Griffin; however, he kind of lingered with Griffin, the eldest and the only one of the three not to attend the ceremony.
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Talking about her career lately which hasn’t been much in the forefront from the 2010s until now The whalesaid Fraser: “It was as if I had been on a diving expedition to the bottom of the ocean and the oxygen line connected to the surface was being watched by my children: Holden, Leland and Griffin (…) I love you , Griffin”.
Fraser’s three children were the result of her marriage to Afton Smith, a relationship that ended in divorce in 2009. Griffin, 20, has both autism and obesity. the actor of George of the jungle54, opened up about her oldest son in an interview with the magazine Interview: “My oldest son, Griffin, has special needs. He’s autistic and he just turned 20.”
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‘He’s a big boy. It measures 1.95 meters. He has big hands and feet, a big body. I understand very well what it is like to be close to someone who lives with obesity,” the artist continued, before referring to his son’s autism: “He knows no irony. You don’t know what cynicism is. You can’t insult him and he can’t insult you. He is the happiest person, and he is, in my life and that of many others, the manifestation of love.”
In The whale, Fraser plays Charlie, an online course teacher confined to home due to his obesity. Over the course of the film, the character tries to reconnect with his daughter, who manifests the pain caused by her father abandoning her, in an abusive manner with physical and emotional abuse towards Charlie.
In the same interview, the actor from the trilogy spoke of The mummy He also said he could easily identify with what was important to Charlie as he also has a family. Fraser won his first Oscar with his first nomination. He triumphed against the also debuting Austin Butler (Elvis)Paul Mescal (after sun)Bill Nighy (Living room) and Colin Farrell (The Ghosts of the Island).
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