Brendan Fraser, even if nominated, will not attend the 80th Golden Globes in 2023

By Shyamly On Nov 17, 2022 0

As people get more excited about the nominations for the 2023 Golden Globes, Hollywood actor Brendan Fraser, who is getting ready for his upcoming movie “The Whale,” is already saying that he won’t go to the ceremony.

Brendan Fraser’s dramatic performance in Darren Aronofsky‘s “The Whale” is getting him the best reviews of his career, and he told GQ for its cover story that he won’t go to the Golden Globes ceremony in January if he is nominated, which is what most people think will happen.

He said it straight out: “I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I do respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.”

“No, I will not participate.”

His reason is apparent to anyone who has been following the up-and-down career of the former heartthrob: “It’s because of the history I have with them,” he told to sources.

“And my mother didn’t raise me to be a hypocrite, so don’t call me that.” Fraser made news in 2018 when he talked about his ups and downs in Hollywood for the first time in a GQ profile.

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He also spoke about how years of stunt work had hurt his body. Sources says that he also made a disturbing claim.

He said that in 2003, Philip Berk, a former president and member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the group that puts on the Golden Globes, touched him inappropriately and beat him up.

(Berk has said that the claim is false.)

After the article came out, the HFPA released a statement that said, in part, “The HFPA stands firmly against sexual harassment and the kind of behavior described in this article.”

Fraser said in the latest profile that after promising to look into it, the HFPA eventually came back to him with a proposed joint statement that would say, “It was determined that Mr. Berk inappropriately touched Mr. Fraser, but the evidence shows that it was meant to be taken as a joke.”

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Berk was a voting member of the HFPA until 2021 when he was kicked out for sending out an email with a link to an article that called Black Lives Matter a “racist hate movement.”

Fraser said of the HFPA, “I knew they would stick together. I knew they would put it off, I knew they would get ahead of the story, and I knew that with that system as it was, I had no future.”