A couple of years ago, at the height of awards season, I moderated an onstage Q&A with Brendan Fraser after a screening of The Whale . It was a SAG-AFTRA event, so the audience was made up largely of actors. Fraser had already been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, but not everyone was convinced at the time that he would win; many considered Austin Butler the favorite for Elvis , while film critics were hoping for a Colin Farrell upset for The Banshees of Inisherin . As soon as Fraser took the stage, however, it was clear that the thing was his. The audience went bananas, and the star held them rapt for the next half-hour or so as he talked about not just his performance in The Whale but also his career ups and downs. Fraser had achieved success early — he was 23 when

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