On the off chance that the Sunday night world debut of "The Whale" at the Venice Film Festival is any sign.
Brendan Fraser's re-visitation of Hollywood will be met with a lot of cheers — and, surprisingly, more tears.
At the point when the credits moved on the Darren Aronofsky show.
In which Fraser plays a 600-pound gay man restricted to a wheelchair, the entertainer was overwhelmed with feeling.
Fraser wailed all through the six-minute deeply heartfelt applause, which will probably put him at the front of the current year's best entertainer Oscars race.
Among those spotted inside the Sala Grande Theater were Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Nick Kroll and Hillary Clinton staff member Huma Abedin.
Who was situated a couple of columns behind Fraser and shed however many tears as he did.
Numerous others inside the theater likewise broke out a cloth during the film's tragic last scenes.
Fraser embraced Aronofsky a few during the applause.
He attempted to leave the theater at a certain point.
However the incredible flood of applauding was so clearly, he remained longer and soaked up the adulation.