PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Darren Aronofski, Brendan Fraser and Samuel D. Hunt, director, actor and screenwriter of the film The whale.
Darren Aronofsky, with The Whale, brings at the Venice Film Festival an astounding monumental performance from Brendan Fraser, in a film that Samuel D. Hunt adapted from his own stage play. The three came to Fred Studio to tell us about the birth of a miracle of film such as this one.
The whale: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
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