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Brendan Fraser exhorts actors to “Keep in there” at the 2023 SAG Awards

Brendan Fraser exhorts actors to “Keep in there” at the 2023 SAG Awards

Brendan Fraser exhorts actors to “Keep in there” at the 2023 SAG Awards

Brendan Fraser exhorts actors to “Keep in there” at the 2023 SAG Awards

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  • Fraser made a joke about Sir Ian McKellen’s advice to “be nice, be brief, and be seated.”
  • He has also won the Critics Choice Award and been nominated for a Golden Globe.
  • He continued by describing the movie The Whale “It’s about love,” he continued. “
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The 2023 SAG Awards have named Brendan Fraser as a winner. Fraser, 54, made a joke about Sir Ian McKellen’s advice to “be nice, be brief, and be seated” as he won the award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a prominent role for his portrayal in The Whale at the SAG Awards on Sunday. (They shared a co-starring role in the 1998 film Gods and Monsters.)

The actor stated, after recalling when he initially earned his SAG-AFTRA membership in 1991, “I never would have dreamed I would have been offered the job of my life in this character, Charlie in The Whale, he’s someone who is on a raft of regrets yet he’s in a sea of hope.

I’ve recently been at that sea and I’ve ridden that wave, and it’s been good and powerful, but I’ve also had that wave crush me way down to the ocean floor and pull my face down there, and I wind up on some odd beach in another planet, thinking “where am I now?” Fraser kept talking after that.

I just want you to know that I completely understand how you feel, all you actors out there who have experienced it or are still experiencing it, he continued. “But I assure you that if you persist and put one foot in front of the other, you will eventually reach your destination. Be courageous.”

Other contenders for the award for best male actor in a prominent role on Sunday included Austin Butler (Elvis), Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin), William Nighy (Living), and Adam Sandler (Hustle).

Fraser has received numerous nominations for his work in The Whale, in which he portrays a 600-lb. man who faces the limits of his secluded life over the course of five days. He has also won the Critics Choice Award and been nominated for a Golden Globe.

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On Jan. 5, Fraser — who made his triumphant return to the big screen with The Whale — also clinched at the Palm Springs International Film Awards, the Spotlight Award. Also, he has received numerous prolonged standing ovations at film festivals.

The actor described the positive feedback he has received for his performance to PEOPLE at the later event as “gratifying and eye-opening.” “I feel a sense of success watching how this story is altering people’s hearts and thoughts,” the author says.

That’s rewarding, to put it mildly, and that type of opportunity does not arise in this circus show of show business that we all occasionally participate in, he continued.

I feel really privileged and grateful to be a part of it, said Fraser, “but when it happens, and it’s material that’s treated with care, and the project comports itself in a way that’s engaging and meaningful.”

Fraser praised the Critics Choice Association in his moving acceptance speech for best actor at the Critics Choice Awards last month. He then made a jest “There are only five critics in America; the others are asleep, according to Herman Melville. Even though I’m not sure what that means, I’m grateful you got up for me. Furry Vengeance took place where were you? “Mentioning his 2010 comedy with Brooke Shields and Ken Jeong as co-stars.

He continued by describing the movie The Whale “It’s about love,” he continued, “and about redemption. It’s about discovering light in a dark place, and I’m so fortunate to have worked with such an amazing ensemble, “including playwright/screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter, Hong Chau, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins, and others.

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The 2023 SAG Awards are being broadcast live from the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles on Netflix’s YouTube channel.

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