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Brendan Fraser astatine the Montclair Film Festival, 2022.
Actor Brendan Fraser is being hailed arsenic the comeback kid aft his show successful Darren Aronofsky's “The Whale” has made him an Oscar frontrunner. Variety, Indie Wire and Awards Daily each person Fraser adjacent the apical of their lists for Best Actor alongside Austin Butler for his show arsenic the King of Rock ’n’ Roll successful “Elvis” and Colin Farrell for his relation successful “The Banshees of Inisherin.”
“The Whale” is simply a movie astir a 600-pound penning teacher successful failing wellness who desperately wants to reconnect with his daughter. “With ‘The Whale,’ Aronofsky and Fraser person taken substantive risks, successful the sanction of an insistent empathy. I think, and my teardrop ducts agree, that those risks paid off,” Glenn Kenny writes for Roger Ebert.com.
Usually, erstwhile radical are frontrunners for the Academy Award they are besides apt to person a motion from the Golden Globes. However, if Fraser is nominated, helium won’t beryllium attending.
“I person much past with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I person respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” Fraser told GQ successful an intimate interview. “No, I volition not participate.”
“It’s due to the fact that of the past that I person with them,” Fraser continued. “And my parent didn’t rise a hypocrite. You tin telephone maine a batch of things, but not that.”
Fraser claims that successful 2003, Philip Berk, the erstwhile president and subordinate of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), groped and sexually assaulted Fraser at a luncheon astatine the Beverly Hills Hotel. "I felt ill. I felt similar a small kid," he told GQ. "I felt similar determination was a shot successful my throat. I thought I was going to cry."
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— Geek Girl Diva (@Geek Girl Diva) 1519313112When Fraser made the allegation nationalist successful 2018, it resulted successful an outpouring of enactment for the histrion astatine a clip erstwhile wellness problems and trauma from the battle forced him to retreat from the limelight. Berk disputes Fraser's assertion and reached retired to him but helium admitted nary wrongdoing.
Berk denied the allegation successful a statement: “Mr. Fraser’s mentation is simply a full fabrication.”
via Montclair Film
The HFPA wrote a associated connection to beryllium signed by Fraser but helium refused due to the fact that helium felt it downplayed Berk’s behavior. Berk was expelled from the HFPA past twelvemonth but not for his behaviour toward Fraser. He was thrown retired aft penning an email to HFPA members that called Black Lives Matter a "racist hatred group.”
Fraser’s captious acclaim for his show successful “The Whale” is simply a invited comeback for the histrion and his fans who spot him as portion of their childhood. He delighted a batch of younger Gen Xers and millennials with his performances successful the 1990s and 2000s, including successful “School Ties,” “Encino Man,” “The Mummy” franchise and “Looney Tunes: Back successful Action.”
Fraser told GQ that he’s excited to bash the property rounds to run for an Oscar motion this awards season. But helium won’t enactment his ain dignity up of his vocation by attending an awards ceremonial held by a radical that helium believes neglected his humanity.
In a municipality wherever determination is nary higher grant than a motion during grant season, Fraser shows that helium has adjacent higher standards to uphold.
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