Actor Brendan Fraser is enjoying awards for his role as a £600 English teacher in ‘The Whale’ but has already been told to fly from an awards show.
In an interview with GQ published Wednesday, Fraser said he plans to skip the Golden Globes ceremony in January, even if he is nominated for an award.
“I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” Fraser said, referring to the organization behind the awards. “No, I will not participate.”
“It’s because of the history I have with them. And my mother did not raise a hypocrite. You can tell me many things, but not like this.
In a 2018 interview with GQ, Fraser accused former HFPA president Philip Berk of sexually assaulting him during a 2003 lunch in Beverly Hills.
“I felt sick. I felt like a child. I felt like I had a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry. I felt like someone threw invisible paint on me,” Fraser told the magazine. She said the incident played a large role in her disappearing from the limelight for more than a decade.
Berk gave Fraser a letter of apology, but told GQ that “he admitted “no wrongdoing” and was “common, if I did anything to upset Mr Fraser it was not intentional and I apologize for that”. “
In this week’s interview, Fraser says the organization never apologized to him (the HFPA denies it), but said if he tried to make amends “it should be, I don’t know, what’s the word I’m looking for…honestly?”
“I would like a gesture of making medicine out of poison in a way. I do not know what it is. But that would be my hope.
The HFPA did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
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