After an untelevised ceremony in 2021, The Golden Globes returns to NBC on January 10. This follows a widespread boycott of the occasion after a Los Angeles Times report accused The Hollywood Foreign Press Association of a scarcity of range and monetary battle throughout the group. Although the HFPA billed itself as a various group, the report confirmed longstanding rumors that the board had no black members, amongst different accusations, and the community pulled again from broadcasting the occasion consequently.
Although the awards present, hosted this 12 months by Jerrod Carmichael, and its organizers have introduced it will “eliminate ethical conflicts” after the controversy, The Whale nominee Brendan Fraser confirmed in November that he wouldn’t be attending.
The 54-year-old actor, who’s nominated for his first-ever Golden Globe Award, revealed in a 2018 GQ interview that former HFPA president Phillip Berk sexually assaulted him in 2003.
“His left-hand reaches around, grabs my a** cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint. And he starts moving it around,” Fraser stated. “I felt ill. I felt like a little kid. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry,” Fraser added. Berk contended the story, saying that “Mr. Fraser’s version is a total fabrication.”
The 88-year-old South African was not expelled from the HFPA till April 2021, after emailing members of the group claiming Black Lives Matter was a “racist hate movement.”
Despite being acknowledged by the Golden Globe Awards and the efforts of the HFPA to enhance, Fraser instructed GQ he doesn’t imagine their reform claims. “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,” he stated.
“It’s because of the history that I have with them. And my mother didn’t raise a hypocrite. You can call me a lot of things, but not that,” Fraser added.
The actor additionally added that his boycott isn’t nearly him, saying there are others who share his story, and that if HFPA have been to vary, he’d need the change to be significant for them as effectively.
Spanning the ‘90s and into the early 2000s, Fraser was a top-billing actor in Hollywood, starring in blockbuster films such as The Mummy. Eventually, the actor faded out of the limelight and took a backseat from general audiences. It wasn’t till he nabbed his present sequence Doom Patrol and was solid in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale as Charlie that he would attain main man standing as soon as once more.
The movie debuted on the Venice International Film Festival, receiving a six-minute standing ovation. As of now, the A24 movie has obtained robust critiques, most of which reward Fraser’s efficiency.