Golden Globes: Celebs On Red Carpet Explain Why They Decided To Attend HFPA’s Party This Year
deadline.comIf you’re a celebrity walking the red carpet of tonight’s Golden Globes, chances are pretty good that you’ll have to answer a few questions about why you decided to show up in the first place.
Despite all the changes made by the HFPA in the last year — including boosting the racial and ethnic diversity of the membership and starting a hotline for folks to report malfeasance — distrust of the foreign press still remains.
So far, most folks — like Glass Onion writer/director Rian Johnson, for example — are saying they checked with their reps and decided improvements had been made before deciding to make the trek to the Beverly Hilton. “I spoke with my publicist who was part of the group who talked with them and worked with them about some of the progress they have been trying to make … make sure they keep making that progress, that’s really important,” Johnson said.#GlassOnion writer/director Rian Johnson on his decision to attend this year's #GoldenGlobes given the HFPA's controversial past few years pic.twitter.com/O07CPjafN4 Baz Luhrmann (Elvis) seemed confident about the HFPA’s progress. “They have walked the walk.
I’ve seen the data. They’re for real,” he tells Deadline. “And we need them … when we all come together, it shows the audience that they can come together in the theater … they’ve showed the changes they’ve made.
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