Mean Girls' Daniel Franzese is "very conflicted" over Brendan Fraser's casting in The Whale
Daniel Franzese feels that he knows more about "being an obese queer man" than Brendan Fraser

In a film season marked by drama, spit-takes, and “movies that feel like movies” (will we ever stop worrying, darling?), very few new entries have been able to escape the endless cycle of discourse. Least of all Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, which stars Brendan Fraser as a 600-pound English teacher and has divided critics and fans since it premiered (to a six-minute standing ovation) at the Venice International Film Festival earlier this month.
Daniel Franzese, who played the iconic candy-cane king Damian in Mean Girls, voiced his own thoughts and nicely summed up both sides of this controversy in a recent interview with People. “I love Brendan Fraser, [so] I’m very conflicted,” he said. “Seeing him get up so modest in Venice and have that moment, I was very happy for him. He’s a lovely man. And it’s great. But why? Why go up there and wear a fat suit to play a 400-lb. queer man?”