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The actor and comedian, who called Fraser "lovely," questioned why the film's director Darren Aronofsky didn't cast a gay actor with a bigger body: "Who knows more about being an obese queer man than an obese queer man?"

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00:00Looking star Daniel Francesi says he doesn't understand why the film The Whale didn't

00:05cast a gay actor with a larger body in the leading role instead of Brendan Fraser.

00:10While speaking to People, the Mean Girls actor said he felt conflicted about Fraser's casting

00:15in the film.

00:16While he expressed that he is happy for Fraser, whose performance is being described as his

00:20big screen comeback, Francesi said he's conflicted.

00:24Seeing him get up so modest in Venice and have that moment, I was very happy for him.

00:28He's a lovely man, and it's great, but why?

00:31Why go up there and wear a fat suit to play a 400 pound queer man?

00:35Francesi noted that both queer actors and people in Hollywood with larger bodies have fewer

00:40roles written for them already without having to contend with straight actors in body suits.

00:44To finally have a chance to be in a prestige film that might be award nominated, where

00:48stories about people who look like us are being told, that's the dream.

00:52The actor went on to note that it was the kind of role he would have loved to read for if

00:56offered the chance.

00:57I guess you can go ahead and wear a fat suit and do what you got to do and get your Oscar.

01:01We'll just sit here waiting.

01:03In an August interview with Vanity Fair, Fraser noted that after stepping into the fat suit,

01:07I learned quickly that it takes an incredibly strong person inside that body to be that

01:11person.

01:12That seemed fitting and poetic and practical to me all at once.

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