Brendan Fraser Won't Attend the Golden Globes If Nominated

Brendan Fraser said he won't attend the Golden Globes if nominated for his film The Whale, due to his history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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''My mother didn't raise a hypocrite'

"I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association," Fraser told GQ Magazine in a cover story published Wednesday.

Asked whether he'll be involved with the ceremony if nominated, Fraser said, "No, I will not participate."

"It's because of the history that I have with them," he said. "And my mother didn't raise a hypocrite. You can call me a lot of things, but not that."

In Darren Aronofsky's The Whale, which opens in theatres on Dec. 9, Fraser plays a reclusive English teacher living with obesity who attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

He's nominated for outstanding lead performance at the upcoming Gotham Awards and is widely considered a likely best actor nominee at the Academy Awards.
Fans reach for autographs as Fraser walks the TIFF red carpet. Last year's Golden Globes were all but cancelled after the HFPA, the organization behind the awards, was plunged into scandal over ethical indiscretions and the revelation that it did not, at the time, include any Black voting members. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Inappropriate touch meant as joke, HFPA said

After an internal investigation, the HFPA concluded that Berk "inappropriately touched" Fraser, who in 2003 had recently starred in the acclaimed drama The Quiet American.

But the HFPA said the incident "was intended to be taken as a joke and not as a sexual advance." Berk remained a member of the group until his expulsion in 2021.

"I knew they would close ranks," Fraser told GQ.

"I knew they would kick the can down the road. I knew they would get ahead of the story. I knew that I certainly had no future with that system as it was," he said.

"I think it was because it was too prickly or sharp-edged or icky for people to want to go first and invest emotionally in the situation." '
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