'My mother didn’t raise a hypocrite. You can call me a lot of things, but not that.' Brendan Fraser to skip the 2023 Golden Globes after accusing former HFPA president Philip Berk of groping him.
that he will not participate in the Globes if he is nominated for “The Whale” due to his accusation that Philip Berk, former president and member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, groped him at a 2003 luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Fraser revealed the alleged assault in a 2018“I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” Fraser told GQ in his new cover story.
“I knew they would close ranks,” Fraser said. “I knew they would kick the can down the road. I knew they would get ahead of the story. I knew that I certainly had no future with that system as it was.” Why did the HFPA not drop Berk after Fraser’s original accusation? “I think it was because it was too prickly or sharp-edged or icky for people to want to go first and invest emotionally in the situation,” the actor said, adding that “at the moment” he does not believe in any of the reforms the HFPA has made in the last year.
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