In an interview with Digital Trends, Stranger Things star SadieSink and HongChau describe their experience filming TheWhale and working with BrendanFraser.
In Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, Brendan Fraser plays Charlie, a reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity. Charlie’s disease limits his ability to walk around his apartment, so he relies on his friend, Liz , to be his nurse and caretaker. After a severe health complication, Charlie realizes his time is running out and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Ellie .
Sadie Sink: Ellie is someone who is in a tremendous amount of pain, and that pain is kind of manifested into these self-destructive coping mechanisms. And she, I think, is someone who finds power and control in scaring people. Her relationship with Charlie — I think Charlie’s this person who she has just built up as this villainous figure in her life. And when that’s proven wrong, I think it becomes one of the most confusing times of her life.
Hong Chau: I credit the writing. I think Sam Hunter crafted a beautiful story, and within the larger story, the individual scenes take you on such a roller-coaster ride where, just like you said, the scene will start off one way and end up in a completely unexpected way. So it’s really Sam Hunter’s gift for writing and creating such layered and complicated characters and situations.Chau: You know, it’s a really complicated relationship between Liz and Charlie. They have a lot of history.
Sink: I think there were times when he was Charlie. He was this character, and he just put 100% of himself into this role, and so it just felt so real in certain moments. I think, especially once we started filming and came out of the rehearsal period, and we were fully in it, and he was in the prosthetics, there was this overall energy that had just shifted.
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