Brendan Fraser says he won’t participate in Golden Globes

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Brendan Fraser, whose performance in “The Whale” has made him a likely awards candidate this year, says he won’t attend the Golden Globes in January if he’s nominated. In 2018, Fraser said that the was groped by longtime Hollywood Foreign Press Association member Philip Berk, a former president of the organization behind the Globes. Fraser said the incident took place at a luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, in 2003. Berk was expelled from the HFPA last year. The 2021 Golden Globes were all but canceled after the organization was plunged into scandal over ethical indiscretions and the revelation that it then included no Black voting members. After reforms, the HFPA will present the 80th Golden Globes January 10 on NBC.