The actor Brendan Fraser has said playing the role of a severely obese man has taught him that those with similar bodies are “incredibly” strong people, both mentally and physically.
I think literature was always imbued in it, I wanted Charlie to be a man of letters, a voracious reader.”
I think it’s poetic that the trauma he carries is manifest in the physical weight of his body.
I learned that you need to be an incredibly strong person, physically, mentally, to inhabit that being,” he said.