The Whale marks Brendan's first Hollywood project in almost ten years and his first lead role in a movie since straight-to-DVD thriller Breakout in 2013. Hunter, who came on board as the screenwriter for the film.ĭarren Aronofsky, known for helming films such as The Wrestler (2008), Mother! (2017) and Black Swan (2010), which earned him an Academy Award nomination, first saw the play in 2012 and asked the writer to work on a screenplay. The movie is based on the off-Broadway play of the same name, written by Samuel D. Its official synopsis reads: 'A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.'
The guilt over his relationship with the man - who would later die - leads Charlie to overeat and get to his current weight of 600 pounds. The Whale follows Brendan's character Charlie as he tries to reconnect with his 17-year-old daughter Ellie (Sadie) after leaving her and her mother years earlier for another man. To play English teacher Charlie, who weighs 600 pounds, he had to wear prosthetics and spend four hours every day having the heavy 300-pound suit fitted.īrendan described the role as the 'hardest thing' he's ever done but said he was able to understand what was important to Charlie because of the love he has for his own children.īrendan is now in a relationship with his longtime partner, makeup artist Jeanne Moore. In psychological drama The Whale, Brendan underwent a physical transformation to play an overweight man confined to a wheelchair, who is trying to reconnect with his daughter (Sadie Sink).īrendan and Jeanne: He is now in a long-term relationship with makeup artist Jeanne Moore (pictured together in November) 'Being with my kids and their mom and our family has given me such love that if ever I needed to hold something of value up to try and translate that to what was important to Charlie, I didn’t have to look far.' He's the happiest person and is, in my life and many others', also the manifestation of love. He said: 'And because of the beauty of his spectrum - call it a disorder if you will, I disagree with you - he knows nothing of irony. The father-of-three went on to say that Griffin is the 'happiest person' in his life, explaining that he doesn't know what 'cynicism' is because of his autism.
'īrendan his three sons with his ex-wife Afton Smith, who he divorced in 2007 after nine years of marriage. 'He just turned 20, he's a big kid, he's six foot five, he's got big hands and feet, a big body. I understand intimately what it is to be close to a person who lives with obesity. He told Interview Magazine: 'I have three kids of my own, my oldest son Griffin has special needs - he's autistic.
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