Brendan Fraser, the unexpected Oscar of an actor forgotten by all

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Throughout his career, he was perceived as an actor as attractive as he was a goofball on screen, even at the peak of his career.

A not very serious guy and incapable of interpretive registers of greater depth.

That, at least for the moment, is over.

for best actor

for his work in

places him in another category, a remarkable story of self-improvement when he already seemed doomed to permanent ostracism, to the classic oblivion of the Hollywood industry.

Very nervous and on the verge of tears

, Fraser thanked his director, Darren Aronofsky, for giving him a new opportunity in the cinema.

"I started 30 years ago in this industry and things didn't come easy for me," he said, still fully grateful for the opportunities that came his way "until they stopped coming."

It is evident that Aronofsky's hand has been key in Fraser's return to cinematographic life.

He already achieved something similar with another actor banished from the big screen.

He took oil out of a finished Mickey Rourke in

in 2008, bringing him back to the red carpet, with a Bafta and a Golden Globe, plus an Oscar nomination that ended up taking Sean Penn for

.

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Like Rourke, Fraser had his

.

The son of Canadians born in Indianapolis 54 years ago, made his debut in 1991 and a year later had already reaped his first relative box office success with

, alongside Sean Astin.

They would come later

,

and

his greatest commercial success

with the subsequent sequel.

His halo as

faded over the years, also shaken by the rocky personal situation of his divorce from actress Afton Smith and a case of sexual assault that led him to move away from the spotlight.

In 2018 he decided to leave Los Angeles behind to settle in a small town in upstate New York.

His return could not have been more forceful.

He has swept awards season with more than twenty honors.

His Oscar for best actor was sung, the icing on the cake.

Aronofsky saw him in an old trailer and decided to offer him the lead role in

.

Fraser plays an obese literature professor, with

of him and the even greater burden of his conscience for having stopped seeing his daughter since she was eight years old.

Food is his only refuge, ashamed of his appearance.

He doesn't even connect his computer's camera in the classes he gives online so his students don't see him.

To play Charlie, Fraser consulted with obesity experts and donned a prosthesis so heavy it had to be filled with tubes of cold water to regulate his body temperature.

"It was a fusion of man and machine, in a way," said the Indiana actor.

Fraser had long since

.

He has now returned to the city where he used to live and claims to have seen ghosts of himself, memories that began to return.

He has done it through the front door, with two more projects in the pipeline that could help prolong the dream.

In post-production is

, a western directed by Martin Scorsese, and a comedy,

, scripted by Ethan Coen.

It is never too late to sign an impression comeback.

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