Brendan Fraser Misses Golden Globes 2023 After Saying He Planned to Skip Ceremony
usmagazine.comAn honor to be nominated? Brendan Fraser skipped the 2023 Golden Globes on Tuesday, January 10, after accusing former HFPA president Philip Berk of assault.Fraser, 54, was nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for his performance in The Whale, marking the first Golden Globe nod of his career.
However, the Indiana native told GQ ahead of the awards show that he would not attend if invited. (The trophy went to Elvis star Austin Butler.)“I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” Fraser said in November 2022, one month before nominations were announced. “No, I will not participate.”He continued: “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.”During a 2018 interview with the same publication, Fraser alleged that he was groped by Berk, now 89, at a 2003 luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California. “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,” the Mummy actor claimed. “I felt like someone had thrown invisible paint on me.”Fraser confessed that he didn’t have “the courage to speak up” after the alleged incident occurred “for risk of humiliation or damage to my career.” He added: “I didn’t want to contend with how that made me feel, or it becoming part of my narrative.”Berk, a longtime member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, denied Fraser’s accusations, arguing in an email to GQ that they were “a total fabrication.”While reflecting on the experience 15 years later, the George of the Jungle actor said he began to blame himself for what happened — and even
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