Brendan Fraser

And here I had these pretentious ideas that

He was masterful in that he would have everything prescribed as he wanted it and deemed it to be.

Yes, he certainly knew what he was doing, but he is a collaborator.

He's really an ensemble player.

He doesn't perceive himself as being so exalted as I was imagining that he would do.

And to see Scorsese work that way and Aronofsky work that way also –

Being surrounded by people who are so committed to what they do and committed to the vision of the one bringing it to them is truly inspiring to me.

When I spoke to him, he said, he needs to be large.

He needs to be powerful and assertive because that character actually was a composite of many different lawyers representing that of trials.

And there were many during trial

But it's, you know, it's the fourth act of a Scorsese movie.

It's when the hammer drops and now everybody, the reckoning is here.

what happens?

Well, they're in court and everyone has to atone for their sins as it were.

And he, uh, absolutely directed me to be large.

And I was carrying some extra pounds on my own body at that time from having done finished doing, um, uh, the whale, the whale, right.

Yeah.

So I was quite larger than, than I am now, for instance, in this, um,

stage of wherever my body is now.

And that was useful to him because, I mean, not only was I sitting next to Bob De Niro and defending him in federal court and going head to head with John Lithgow in a bellowing contest to a judge who, at that time, lawyers fought trials based on how colorful and bombastic and large they were.