Actor Brendan Fraser has said he will not attend the next Golden Globes, which will be held in Los Angeles in January.
The star, known for movies of The Mummyis one of Hollywood’s awards season favorites for his role in the film The Whale.
In 2018, Fraser denounced that Philip Berk, president of the organizing body for the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), had groped her behind in 2003.
Fraser said the incident made him “get into himself” and “feel lonely”.
The HFPA concluded that Berk “inappropriately touched” Fraser, but that this was “intended as a joke and not as a sexual advance.”
When Fraser was asked in a new interview with GQ magazine if he would go to next year’s Golden Globes if invited, he replied: “I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I respect the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Hollywood Foreign Press. No, I will not participate.”
“It’s because of the history I have with them. And my mother didn’t raise a hypocrite. They can call me many things, but not that.”
Fraser is one of Hollywood’s awards season favorites for his role in the movie “The Whale.”
The 2003 incident occurred at an event at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and Fraser previously told the magazine that she felt Berk’s finger as she began to “move” it around her butt.
“I felt bad,” the actor said in 2018. “I felt like a little kid. I felt like I had a lump in my throat. I thought I was going to cry.”
“I knew they would close ranks”
He then demanded and received an apology, but Berk told GQ in 2018: “My apology did not admit wrongdoing, the usual: ‘If I did something that upset Mr. Fraser, it was unintentional and I apologize.'”
The HFPA concluded that the incident was a hoax following conducting an internal investigation. Berk told GQ that Berk had not faced any disciplinary action.
“I knew they would close ranks,” Fraser said in his last interview. “I knew they would kick the can down the road. I knew they would get ahead of history. I knew I certainly had no future with that system as it was.”
Fraser has received rave reviews for The Whalein which he plays a morbidly obese literature professor.
He is widely considered the favorite to win best actor at next year’s Oscars, which would normally be repeated at precursor ceremonies like the Golden Globes.
Screen International reviewer Wendy Ide said Fraser was “gritty and fully committed in her first major lead role in a decade”.
“It’s hard to imagine anyone being so captivating in the role,” wrote BBC Culture’s Nicholas Barber, adding that the actor “widely deserves to be nominated for a best actor Oscar.”
The Globes will return as a televised event in January following NBC canceled the broadcast of this year’s ceremony following controversies that included allegations of racism, sexism and conflicts of interest.
Berk was ousted from the organization in 2021 following sharing an article that described the group Black Lives Matter as a “racist hate group.”
Remember that you can receive notifications from BBC Mundo. Download the new version of our app and activate them so you don’t miss out on our best content.
