This awards season has seen a big return for Colin Farrell, too. The Irishman was once Hollywood’s favourite enfant terrible, better known for his infamous 2002 sex tape (breakfast, lunch and dinner, anyone?), as an international symbol for sex appeal and hedonism, and as a salutary reminder of squandered early promise.
But in the last two years, Farrell has starred in A24’s sleeper sci-fi hit After Yang (2021) and The Batman (2022), with a spin-off series for his Penguin starting production next month. And then there’s The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh’s critically acclaimed tragicomedy set in 1920’s Ireland. Farrell is now up for a Best Actor nomination for his performance as Pádraic, who’s all eyebrows and depressed about his disintegrating relationship with best pal Colm (Brendan Gleeson).
The biggest comeback of all, though, is that hunky, heartthrob ’90s guy who was in The Mummy trilogy, George of the Jungle and then… what? Those films might have earned Brendan Fraser a place in the action star hall of fame. But then, to all intents and purposes, he vanished from our screens. Why, how, huh?
The story was stranger, and more disturbing, than any Black List script. In 2018 Fraser alleged that, in 2003, he’d been sexually assaulted by Philip Berk, then-president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organisation behind the Golden Globes. Though Berk denies these allegations, Fraser has suggested he was blacklisted because of them. Until, that is, being cast in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, for which Fraser is now a Best Actor frontrunner.
“Darren Aronofsky, I was in the wilderness, and I probably should have left a trail of breadcrumbs, but you’ve found me,” he said in a speech at the Critics Choice Awards, shouting out a director with form in the comeback game: in another awards-season sensation, Aronofsky revitalised the career of Mickey Rourke with 2008’s The Wrestler. After those wilderness years, Fraser is back, and is now one of Hollywood’s most universally beloved actors. It’s a rare moment when the entire internet can agree on one thing, let alone for that thing to be that they want only the best for you. Like we said, freudenfreude. We’re with him all the way.
Speaking of which: honorary mention to Andrea Riseborough’s last-minute, unorthodox, slightly perplexing Oscars push for her role as an alcoholic single mother in the relatively little-known To Leslie. Her single-minded campaign of hitting up her A‑lister pals for support worked a charm: she’s up for Best Actress.
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