A few weeks after failing to attend the Golden Globe Awards night, held in early January of this year, actor Brendan Fraser has publicly criticized the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Nominated for his performance in “The Whale”, he revealed that he considered the ceremony insignificant and even called the award a “hood ornament” for cars.
“They needed me, but I didn’t need them. It wouldn’t be meaningful to me. [vencer o prêmio]. Where am I going to put that hood ornament? What would I do with that?”, Detonated the actor in an interview with the presenter Howard Stern. In December, when it was announced that he was running for the award, Fraser had already announced that he would not be present and revealed the reason: a possible abuse involving the former president of the association, Philp Berker.
In an interview with GQ magazine four years ago, the actor accused Berker of groping him in 2003 during a lunch in Beverly Hills. The journalist, now 89 years old, has always denied the accusation and, according to Brendan Fraser, in 2018, the HFPA reported that it had carried out an investigation against the harasser, but that the conclusion was that it would have “feeled like a joke and not harassment”. .”
“No, I don’t want to participate. It’s because of the history I have with them. And my mother didn’t raise a hypocrite. You can call me a lot of things, but not that,” Fraser said recently.
The actor even commented on Stern’s program what it would take for the Golden Globes to actually show his change of heart and, perhaps, begin to win him back: an apology “that meant something real”.
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