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Bren­dan Fras­er has joined the cast of Mar­tin Scorsese’s upcom­ing western

03 Aug 2021

Words by Charles Bramesco

A man wearing a black cowboy hat and shirt, with a serious expression on his face, stands against a grey background.
A man wearing a black cowboy hat and shirt, with a serious expression on his face, stands against a grey background.
As well as Killers of the Flower Moon, he’s booked a role in the new film from Palm Springs direc­tor Max Barbakow.

Every­one loves a Hol­ly­wood come­back sto­ry, and Bren­dan Fras­er has giv­en us one that keeps get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter. Ear­li­er this year, he deliv­ered some fine work for Steven Soder­bergh in No Sud­den Move, and now he’s land­ed anoth­er choice gig with a trea­sure of the Amer­i­can cinema.

Mar­tin Scors­ese has tapped Fras­er for a role in his upcom­ing west­ern Killers of the Flower Moon, now in the thick of shoot­ing in Okla­homa. An exclu­sive from Dead­line con­firms that the actor will appear along­side Leonar­do DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in the forth­com­ing peri­od piece as a lawyer by the name of WS Hamilton.

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The Dead­line item also includ­ed news of anoth­er job for Fras­er in Broth­ers, the new film from Palm Springs direc­tor Max Bar­bakow. The spe­cif­ic nature of his char­ac­ter was not revealed in the report, but he’ll costar with Peter Din­klage, Josh Brolin, and Glenn Close. Who among them will be the tit­u­lar broth­ers? Only time will tell.

Fraser’s been on some­thing of a hot streak late­ly, hav­ing filmed a key part as an obese shut-in for Dar­ren Aronof­sky​’s The Whale not so long ago. A hand­ful of name-brand auteurs have got­ten wise to a sto­ic world-weari­ness in Fraser’s face honed over time, absent from his ear­li­er work in the block­buster circuit.

Fraser’s an illus­tra­tion of the long and unlike­ly paths that a tena­cious actor can trav­el, his years in the biz hav­ing tak­en him from the likes of The Mum­my and George of the Jun­gle to an appear­ance in a Scors­ese epic. After sur­viv­ing an ordeal no one should have to, his suc­cess is just that much more inspiring.

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