But Fraser doesn’t play him with a heavy, glum, downbeat vibe. Since Charlie is mostly a sedentary lump, you might expect him to have a lumpish personality too. With great effort, however, he finally does, using a walker to skulk around the apartment. Once that’s over, it seems, for a while, like he literally can’t lift himself out of his armchair. When we first see Charlie, he’s frantically masturbating to a porn video.
The actor sinks himself into that body, so that even as we’re gawking at a fellow the size of Jabba the Hutt we register the familiar soulful look in the eye, the distended remnants of the Fraser handsomeness. Fraser, with sweaty thinning hair plastered on his scalp, resembles an overstuffed Rodney Dangerfield. The sloping jowls that consume his neck, the big wide back and gigantic jelly belly that spills down over his crotch, the arms and legs that are like meat slabs - Charlie is a mountain of a man, but he’s all of a piece. Fraser has been outfitted with a digital fat suit (the effects that bulk him up are a blend of prosthetics and CGI), and the result is that we see someone who looks at home in his flesh. He plays Charlie, a man of many hundreds of pounds who sits all day long in his shabby dank apartment in a small town in Idaho.
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