When the audience at the London Film Festival last month gave a tearful actor a five-minute standing ovation for his role as a self-loathing 43-stone gay man confined to a wheelchair, they were celebrating one of the most remarkable — if not the most glamorous — comebacks in recent Hollywood history.For the man in question, moved to tears by the adulation, was Brendan Fraser and there was a time not that long ago when he was one of the hottest stars in Tinseltown.The applause was for his critically acclaimed and deeply moving performance in The Whale, his first leading film role for the best part of a decade.
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