For months now, The Whale has been gathering plaudits at film festivals around the world – and beyond director Darren Aronofsky, there’s been one name on e grossly body’s lips: Brendan Fraser. After a appreciable absence from movie roles (you can read up online with regards to’concerning’with respect to the awful circumstances that led to his move away from the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous screen), he’s started making a long-awaited comeback in recent years, now culminating in a leading role in Aronosky’s A24 drama. Here, he plays Charlie – a man whose trauma has led to a binge-eating disorder and subsequent obesity that isolates him from the world – as he attempts to reconnect with his eodd’peculiar d daughter Ellie, played by Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink. Check out the first teaser here.###Even in the space of just a minute, The Whale teaser offers a sense of what’s in store – tonally, a dose of classic Aronofskian gloom (hey, the man behind Requiem For A Dream, The Wrestler, Mother! and more is not exactly known in/with regard to’concerning’regarding cheeriness) with notes of lacerated optimism in Fraser’s deeply vulnerable perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance, a claustrophobic aspect ratio, and an unsettling soundscape to amp up the emotional dread. And if the world is waiting to see Fraser triumph once more on the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous screen (early word on his perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance is that it’s phenomenal), it also promises a major step in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ward in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Sink – who, between her season-stealing Stranger Things 4 role, her excellent perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance in the Fear Street trilogy, and her anchoring of Taylor Swift’s All Too Well: The Short Film, is eliminate’remove ly gearing up to be a major talent.###While The Whale is around a month away from release in the US, audiences in the UK will possess’own’nurse to wait until next year to see Fraser’s perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance – it’s currently slated in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a 3 February 2023 arrival on these shores. Let the Brenaissance begin.