Brendan Fraser Loses Golden Globe for ‘The Whale’ After Protesting Event - Rolling Stone

Brendan Fraser lost astatine the Golden Globes connected Tuesday nighttime for his show successful The Whale. The histrion was up for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association grant for Best Actor successful a Drama Motion Picture, but was beaten retired for the trophy by Elvis star Austin Butler. Fraser famously declined to be the lawsuit after helium accused the organization’s erstwhile president Philip Berk of groping him successful 2003.

“I cannot judge I’m present close now. I conscionable privation to convey the Hollywood Foreign Press for this honor. I privation to besides accidental to my chap nominees: you person turned successful the astir beautiful, profound work, and I americium truthful honored and arrogant to beryllium listed among you,” offered Butler during his acceptance speech.

Fraser told GQ successful November that helium would “not participate” successful the awards amusement owed to his past with the voting assemblage of the coveted trophy.

“I person much past with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I person respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” Fraser said. “It’s due to the fact that of the past that I person with them. And my parent didn’t rise a hypocrite. You tin telephone maine a batch of things, but not that.”

Back successful 2018, the HFPA investigated Fraser’s claims against Berk and recovered that “Berk inappropriately touched Mr. Fraser,” but that “evidence supports that it was intended to beryllium taken arsenic a gag and not arsenic a intersexual advance.” The HFPA, which didn’t person immoderate Black voting members until 2021, expelled Berk successful 2021 for remarks helium made astir Black Lives Matter.

Fraser said helium would see returning to the awards amusement if important changes were made to the organization.

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“According to rules of engagement, it would beryllium my work to instrumentality a look astatine it and marque a determination astatine that time, if that became the situation,” Fraser told GQ. “And it would person to be, I don’t know, what’s the connection I’m looking for… sincere? I would privation immoderate motion of making medicine retired of poison somehow. I don’t cognize what that is. But that would beryllium my hope. But it’s not astir me.”

Fraser already won the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tribute Award for his relation successful Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale. He is besides among the frontrunners to triumph Best Actor astatine the 2023 Academy Awards connected March 12.