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Tom Cruise goes maverick and Riseborough goes awol at the Oscars nominees luncheon

Dominating the situation with starry generosity, Cruise took the Academy Award for best hugger – while Andrea Riseborough was nowhere to be seen

The Guardian - UK

Star of scrapped Batgirl movie says Glasgow weather caused 'obstacle' for film crews

The star of DC film Batgirl says hearing the news that Warner Bros had decided to scrap the film was like “deflating a balloon".

The National (Scotland)

Batgirl star says news of film’s scrapping was like ‘deflating a balloon’

The decision that the film would be axed was made suddenly in August last year just months before it was due to be released.

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Glasgow home to almost a third of 60,000 fly-tipping cases across Scotland

The new data has led to calls for legislation changes to stop the 'growing scourge' that fly-tipping has on local communities, as well as the huge environmental damage

Glasgow Live

Batgirl villain Brendan Fraser says 'Gotham never looked better as Glasgow'

The star was discussing the ill-fated movie shot entirely on locations across the city before its release was cancelled by studio bosses following poor screen tests .

Glasgow Live

The Whale director Darren Aronofsky reveals why he cast Brendan Fraser and responds to accusations of fatphobia

Director Darren Aronofsky spent years searching for someone to play the English teacher with severe obesity at the centre of his film. But the film has been accused of fatphobia.

ABC News

Oscar nominee Brendan Fraser hails Glasgow as 'perfect' Gotham as he opens up about scrapped Batgirl film

Batgirl was filmed almost entirely in Glasgow as production took over much of the city for a number of months, but was ultimately scrapped by Warner Bros after a poor reaction at test screenings.

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Internet Sweetheart Brendan Fraser Blasted The Golden Globes For Nominating Him Go Off King

"They needed me, I didn’t need them."

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Brendan Fraser admits filming nude scene in 90s film was an 'absolutely scary' experience

Hollywood star Brendan Fraser has revealed he was fully nude while filming a shower scene with Matt Damon in School Ties, describing it as a 'scary' experience

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Putting an actor in a fat suit to play an obese character on screen is ableist hogwash'

Anna Morell, who works for Disability Rights UK, says actor Brendan Fraser's interviews about his role in a fat suit, beg the question: why are we still using fat suits like this?

Daily Mirror

Brendan Fraser 'blamed himself' for son's autism diagnosis after 'smoking weed in college'

Oscar nominated The Whale actor Brendan Fraser said he felt as though he'd been 'hit over the head with a baseball bat' after his son Griffin was diagnosed with autism and immediately blamed himself

Daily Mirror

Brendan Fraser says his autistic son has the ‘most joy of anyone I know’

Actor admitted he struggled to wrap his head around his son’s diagnosis at the beginning

The Independent UK

Brendan Fraser calls Golden Globes ‘hood ornament’ that ‘means nothing to me’

‘I honestly don’t even wanna think about it that much because it’s not that important to me,’ Fraser says

The Independent UK

The cine files! Your weekly blockbuster breakdown

From Magic Mike to Titanic, what’s hot at the cinema this week

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Darren Aronofsky: “The Whale allows people to have a good cry”

The director talks to us about his new drama starring Brendan Fraser, The Whale, and why audiences have been flocking to theatres to shed some group tears

The Guardian - UK

The Whale review – Brendan Fraser is remarkable in knotty drama of self-destruction

The Oscar-nominated star plays a chronically obese man in Darren Aronofsky’s clammy, uncomfortable but ultimately redeeming movie

The Independent UK

Don’t blame Brendan Fraser for The Whale’s crass fatphobia

Fraser’s controversial Oscar-tipped turn as an obese man saw the actor radically alter his appearance through weight gain and prosthetics. Hollywood’s fixation with extreme physical transformations is at fault, writes Louis Chilton – and it’s starting to stifle the whole industry

The Conversation

The Whale: Brendan Fraser's comeback offers rare representation of the fat queer male body on screen

The Whale debuted at the 2022 Venice Film Festival to a six-minute standing ovation for its Academy Award-nominated lead, Brendan Fraser, who has returned to the big screen after a considerable hiatus.

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The Guardian - UK

The Guide #72: How Sam Smith became one of pop’s most boundary-pushing stars

In this week’s newsletter: With their camp, raunchy new video, the singer has firmly traded sensible and sombre ballads for unapologetic, unbothered queerness

The New Daily

February movie guide: More Oscar nominations land, Hugh Jackman’s The Son and Cocaine Bear

Three more films which have received Oscar nominations at this year's 95th academy awards are in cinemas in the weeks leading up to March 13

Evening Standard

Everything that should be on your radar this weekend (Feb 4th)

From The Whale to the dance floor, here’s some inspiration for your weekend...

The Independent UK

Why are Hollywood fat suits back in fashion?

Brendan Fraser has been Oscar-nominated for playing an over-eating teacher in ‘The Whale’, described as ‘one of the most fatphobic films of all time’. Eloise Hendy explores how plus-size prosthetics, once derided as dated, have ended up back in the Hollywood toolkit

ABC News

The Whale is being lauded as Brendan Fraser's comeback, but even his Oscar-nominated performance can't evade its flaws

The Mummy star is an Oscars frontrunner for his role as a morbidly obese teacher in The Whale, but not even his affecting performance can quite transcend this flawed film.

The Independent UK

Batgirl star says Brendan Fraser was ‘outstanding’ as villain – but footage will never see the light of day

‘Amazing’ action scenes were shot for the abandoned DC Comics film

Daily Mirror

Sarah Michelle Gellar tears up as she shares sweet text Brendan Fraser sent after award win

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star sat down with Good Morning Britain entertainment presenter Richard Arnold to discuss her new series Paramount+ series Wolf Pack

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