Brendan Fraser won't attend Golden Globes if nominated: 'My mother didn't raise a hypocrite' - Entertainment Weekly News

We're inactive weeks distant from learning the 2023 Golden Globes nominees, but 1 of the Best Actor frontrunners is already signaling his volition to boycott the ceremony.

"I person much past with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I person respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association," helium said bluntly. "No, I volition not participate." 

His reasoning, for those who person followed the erstwhile heartthrob's rollercoaster career, is obvious: "It's due to the fact that of the past that I person with them," helium explained. "And my parent didn't rise a hypocrite. You tin telephone maine a batch of things, but not that." 

In 2018, Fraser made headlines for different GQ profile successful which helium opened up for the archetypal clip astir his ups and downs successful Hollywood, including the toll years of stunt enactment had taken connected his body. He besides shared a disturbing allegation, accusing Philip Berk, a erstwhile president and subordinate of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the enactment down the Golden Globes, of groping and assaulting him successful 2003. (Berk has denied the allegation.)

After the nonfiction came out, the HFPA issued a connection saying, successful part, "The HFPA stands firmly against intersexual harassment and the benignant of behaviour described successful this article." Fraser said successful the latest illustration that aft promising to investigate, the HFPA yet came backmost to him with a projected associated connection that would read, per the actor: "Although it was concluded that Mr. Berk inappropriately touched Mr. Fraser, the grounds supports that it was intended to beryllium taken arsenic a gag and not arsenic a intersexual advance." Fraser refused to cosign the statement. Berk remained a voting subordinate of the HFPA until 2021 erstwhile helium was expelled for sharing an nonfiction describing Black Lives Matter arsenic a "racist hatred movement" successful an email to his chap members. 

"I knew they would adjacent ranks," Fraser said of the HFPA. "I knew they would footwear the tin down the road. I knew they would get up of the story. I knew that I surely had nary aboriginal with that strategy arsenic it was."

As for wherefore his allegations failed to provoke much of a effect from the HFPA and Hollywood astatine ample (the Golden Globes enjoyed a afloat big of nominees successful attendance that year), Fraser said, "I deliberation it was due to the fact that it was excessively prickly oregon sharp-edged oregon icky for radical to privation to spell archetypal and put emotionally successful the situation."

Fraser said the incidental "made maine retreat" astatine the time, feeling similar "something had been taken distant from me." Shortly aft the archetypal illustration came out, the histrion "heard from assemblage friends, radical I hadn't worked with oregon seen going backmost 30 years of my career." He remembered learning the nonfiction was trending connected Twitter and thinking, "Oh, my God. Oh, f—, what person I done now?" He recalled: "It was radical saying they similar me. And they referenced that piece. I was like, Is this good, is this problematic? I don't know. What did I bash to gain this?"

While making his allegations nationalist was a mostly affirmative experience, Fraser said it besides near him feeling somewhat exposed. "I deliberation the feeling that I person is, this is simply a hard 1 to describe, and not to beryllium vulgar, but it's like: I've seen you naked," helium explained. "It's similar radical cognize what you look like, they cognize the communicative astir you." Overall though, helium recovered the interrogation "liberating," saying "it was a value removed." Speaking retired astir the allegations, Fraiser said, helped bring him a measurement of closure. "That doesn't mean I don't get triggered each present and then, but past I travel bent retired backmost here," helium said, gesturing to the archery people successful his backyard, according to the magazine, "And I'll nonstop a fewer arrows down range, and things consciousness better." 

Still, adjacent a fewer years aft the nonfiction came out, the alleged incidental remains hard to discuss, helium acknowledged. "I would admit to feeling a small spot of a bosom palpitation discussing this with you close now," helium told the reporter. "But it's good due to the fact that my anticipation is that I tin beryllium recognized astatine this clip successful my beingness and vocation for my nonrecreational efforts, alternatively than the trope of the comeback kid arsenic being a modular successful culture, sports, coming from behind, being written disconnected and past coming back." 

While the HFPA escaped Fraser's allegations mostly unscathed, the enactment recovered itself connected the incorrect extremity of different firestorm conscionable a fewer years later. A week earlier NBC's 78th Golden Globes broadcast successful 2021, the Los Angeles Times published an exposé revealing that the HFPA's 87-person votership included no Black members. The amusement went connected to registry record-low ratings amid personage pushback, and NBC yet decided it wouldn't aerial the Globes successful 2022.

Since then, the HFPA has announced behind-the-scenes initiatives including the instauration of an oversight committee and a concern with the NAACP. They besides added 103 caller voters to their ranks, virtually doubling its size, including 21 caller voters from divers backgrounds. While the efforts led NBC to bring backmost the televised ceremonial adjacent year, Fraser remains dubious of the organization's sincerity. 

Asked if helium believed successful the reforms, the histrion told GQ, "At the moment, no. Maybe clip volition archer if they're going to...I don't cognize what they're going to do. I don't know." 

Fraser besides maintained the HFPA ne'er offered him an apology, which the enactment denied, reportedly telling GQ they've apologized twice, though, according to the outlet, Berk admitted successful 2018 that a alleged apology missive helium sent to Fraser contained nary admittance of wrongdoing.

If the HFPA does effort to apologize to him, Fraser said, "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. 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." Fraser besides noted that he's acold from the lone idiosyncratic who has felt wronged by the group, truthful if they were to marque an apology, "I would expect that it would beryllium thing that would beryllium meaningful for them too." 

EW has reached retired to the HFPA for comment.

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