Before Brendan Fraser stepped into the critically acclaimed lead role in 'The Whale,' James Corden almost played the part, he said, according to a columnist.
had briefly considered directing but only if he could find an actor who was close to the 600-pound character to play the lead role. "The complications of that were too much, as you might imagine, and Clooney never became involved beyond that brief flirtation with the property," Hammond wrote."The Whale" director Darren Aronofsky confirmed everything to Hammond on a different occasion, the columnist wrote.
The reaction to the film at the London Film Festival follows his first standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival in early September. The audience bestowed a six-minute standing ovation to the"Crash" star.
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