Brendan Fraser glows with joy as he promotes comeback movie The Whale in Tokyo

Brendan Fraser was glowing as he promoted his comeback movie The Whale at a press conference in Tokyo this week.

Helmed by Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, The Whale starred Brendan as a wheelchair-bound gay man who weighs 600 pounds.

The film, which was released four days before Christmas 2022, was greeted with a deluge of acclaim, including a Best Actor Oscar for Brendan.

The 54-year-old, who established himself as a Hollywood heartthrob in recent decades with movies like The Mummy, was timelessly handsome during his Tokyo press.

He wrapped a stylish khaki jacket over his close-fitting black T-shirt, which matched his jeans and contrasted elegantly with his tan shoes.

Hunk-tastic: The movie was released four days before Christmas 2022 and was greeted with a deluge of acclaim, including a Best Actor Oscar for Brendan

Brendan gave the photographers his winning matinee idol grin as he promoted his new photo at the Tokyo event.

Right now, he’s enjoying the slipstream of his amazing comeback, including an Oscar win for The Whale last month.

‘Thank you thank you. So this is what the multiverse looks like,” he joked in his Academy Awards acceptance speech.

‘Oh dear. I thank the Academy for this honor and for our studio A24 for making such a daring film. And – I’m grateful to Darren for giving me a creative lifeline and dragging me aboard the good ship The Whale,” he said.

“I started in this business 30 years ago, and things — they didn’t come to me easily, but there was a facility that I didn’t … I didn’t appreciate it at the time until it stopped.”

The sizzling sensation expressed its gratitude “for this recognition, because it wasn’t possible without my cast.”

Brendan added: “It’s like I’ve been on a diving expedition at the bottom of the ocean and the air on the line to the surface is on a launch that’s been watched over by some of the people in my life, like my sons, Holden and Leland and Griffin. I love you.’

Although Brendan attended the Academy Awards, he made headlines for his refusal to attend the Golden Globes.

Use it or lose it: Brendan treated the shutterbugs to his winning matinee idol grin as he promoted his new photo at the Tokyo event

Background: Although Brendan attended the Academy Awards, he made an impression with his refusal to attend the Golden Globes

Making it happen: Right now he’s enjoying the slipstream of his amazing comeback, including an Oscar win for The Whale last month

He claimed a few years ago that his career had “withered on a vine” after he was groped in 2003 by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the organization behind the Golden Globes.

Philip, 90, who was expelled from the HFPA in 2021 after emailing members an article calling Black Lives Matter a “racist hate group,” has disputed Brendan’s account.

During an interview with GK late last year, Brendan announced that he “will not be competing” at the Golden Globes in January.

“I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” he said.

He attributed his decision to “the history I have with them. And my mother didn’t raise a hypocrite. You can call me anything, but not that.’

Brendan claimed that when he presented his accusation to the HFPA, “I knew they were going to close ranks. I knew they’d kick the can in the road.”

The George Of The Jungle star added, “I knew they were going to get ahead of the story. I knew I certainly had no future with that system as it was.’

He continued to attend the Golden Globes after 2003 and was still in the audience at the 2010 ceremony when Philip was still president of the HFPA.

Details: Helmed by Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, The Whale starred Brendan as a wheelchair-bound gay man who weighs 600 pounds

‘Thank you, thank you’: ‘So this is what the multiverse looks like,’ he joked in his acceptance speech for the Academy Awards