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Brendan Fraser on obesity: 'You need to be an incredibly strong person'

The former heart-throb learnt some things playing a morbidly obese man in the new drama 'The Whale'

18 December 2022 - 00:00 By Margaret Gardiner

Brendan Fraser explains his character in The Whale as “a man living with a great deal of regret. He’s been harming himself by over-eating.”..

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