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Brendan Fraser Denies Going to the Golden Globes; “My mother did not raise a hypocrite”

Brendan Fraser, who has already won considerable awards for his role in “The Whale”, which opens in cinemas next month, says he has no plans to attend the upcoming Golden Globes ceremony, citing his history with the organization of the event in an interview.

“I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. No, I will not participate”, explained the actor in an interview with GQ published this Wednesday (16).

Fraser is apparently referring to the 2018 allegations the actor made against former HFPA president Philip Berk, who he claims groped him at an event in 2003.

The actor spoke to the publication about his decision. “My mother did not raise a hypocrite. You can call me a lot of things, but not that,” Fraser said.

In a different profile for GQ in 2018, Fraser described meeting Berk at a lunch hosted by the organization at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where the actor alleged that Berk grabbed his bottom and, through his pants, touched him in the area between his organs. genitals and your anus.

“I felt bad. I felt like a kid,” Fraser said at the time. “I felt like I had a lump in my throat. I thought I was going to cry,” said the actor.

Berk has denied any wrongdoing, admitting he pinched Fraser’s buttock at the event in question, but in his own GQ interview, he said he did it in jest.

Following Fraser’s allegations, the HFPA released a statement saying it was “investigating further details of the incident” and that it “takes a strong stand against sexual harassment.”

Behind the scenes, Fraser told GQ this week, the organization eventually reached out to him and proposed at the time that he issue a joint statement that said, he said: “While it has been concluded that Mr. Berk inappropriately touched Mr. Fraser, the evidence supports that it was meant as a joke and not a sexual advance.”

Fraser says he refused to sign the alleged joint statement.

THE CNN reached out to the HFPA and Berk for comment.

To the magazine, the actor said he knew what the association would do.

“I knew they were going to kick the can down the road. I knew they would fast-forward the story. I knew I certainly had no future with that system the way it was,” she stated.

Reflecting on why her situation didn’t make a splash, Fraser said, “I think it was because it was too prickly or sharp or gross for people to want to go first and get emotionally invested in the situation.”

Following the actor’s allegations, Berk remained an active member of the HFPA until last year, when he was expelled for releasing an article to other HFPA members that referred to Black Lives Matter as a “racist hate movement.”

The Golden Globes, long considered a lead-up to the Oscars, also came under fire last year after it was revealed by the Los Angeles Times that the association did not contain black voting members.

Despite the organization’s attempts to address the controversy and other ethical issues, NBC severed broadcast ties with the organization, pending the group’s efforts to enact “significant reform.”

The 2022 Golden Globes did not air on television. NBC announced in September that the show would return to the air in 2023, citing the HFPA’s “commitment to continued change”.

When asked if he believed any of the reforms announced by the HFPA translated into real progress, Fraser was skeptical.

“At the time no. Maybe time will tell if they will… I don’t know what they’ll do,” he told the magazine.

After overwhelmingly positive reception during the film festival season, Fraser is considered a contender for a best actor Oscar nomination.

In “The Whale,” Fraser plays a reclusive, overweight professor who is trying to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter Ellie (Sadie Sink of ‘Stranger Things’).

The film, directed by Darren Aronofsky, hits theaters on December 9 in the United States.

Source: CNN Brasil

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