Brendan Fraser nonetheless doesn’t know if his Golden Globes nomination for The Whale was cynical or real, however both method, he says the win wouldn’t have been “meaningful to me.”
Throughout his first-ever appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Brendan Fraser opened up about his emotions on his nomination following the precise Golden Globes ceremony and addressed whether or not he believes others ought to be part of a Hollywood boycott of the awards establishment in assist of him.
“I don’t need everyone to stand in solidarity with me,” the actor mentioned, including that he believes that is his struggle and “no one else’s.” However Fraser did acknowledge standing with him in his calls for for actual reform on the Hollywood International Press Affiliation could be an enormous — although optically difficult — step. “It would be a leap of faith for whoever that would be,” he defined. “It would be a calculated risk and it could also be trivialized very easily by the cynical view of this all.”
The Oscar nominee was not in attendance on the January awards present after beforehand sharing that the HFPA had not reconciled or apologized to him in a significant method after he was allegedly groped by a now-expelled member. “Honestly, my mother didn’t raise a hypocrite, and I didn’t wanna sit and feel like I really don’t know if I want this,” he instructed Stern.
And whereas the actor didn’t win, he mentioned getting the honour — which in the end went to Elvis’ Austin Butler — not solely meant so little to him, it additionally left him “wondering is this a cynical nomination.”
“I couldn’t really tell because of my history with them and that I still have yet to see the results from their reformation. We all are still awaiting that, to tell you the truth,” Fraser defined. “Get it or don’t get it, doesn’t matter. What does matter is that it would mean nothing to me. I don’t want it. I didn’t ask to be considered even, that was presumed.”
For Fraser, it might have additionally been a second of vindication. “They needed me, I didn’t need them,” he mentioned. “Where am I gonna put that hood ornament? What would I do with that?”
As for the way the HFPA might be able to “make amends” and restore its relationship with the Whale star, Fraser mentioned it ought to begin with issuing “an apology that made sense.” It will additionally contain sharing the investigation that they carried out round his complaints, “that they did into me and my family and my friends.”
“I never saw the result of that report. They wouldn’t give it to me, they said, no, it’s ours. So whatever’s in it, they don’t want me to read it,” he continued. “Instead I was given a press release that said it was a joke.”
Whereas Fraser stays agency in his boycott of the press group behind the Golden Globes, he says he actually doesn’t “even wanna think about [the nomination] that much.” As an alternative, he took the time to have fun one factor he believes was a step in the correct path for the awarding physique.
“The good news is, they did something important in that broadcast and it changed my thinking about them: They put [Ukrainian President] Zelensky front and center,” the actor mentioned. “They let him have the stage, and that’s a powerful statement and something I can get behind and support.”
At one other level within the interview, Fraser spoke to Stern about Warner Bros. Disocvery’s choice to axe its HBO Max Batgirl film earlier than it was completed. The actor, who was set to play the movie’s villain, mentioned it was an element he “relished” and was “very, very good on paper.”
“It was a story about a guy who had been in the service and his benefits were cut and he was very angry with system, and what else was he going to do but burn it to the ground?” Fraser mentioned, visibly excited in regards to the half. “You’ve got some sympathy to him. You’ve also got some humanity to him and on top of that a screw loose because you know he’s a bad guy. But is he really? All the best bad guys, you kind of like them a little bit.”
However when Stern asks whether or not the movie will get a launch, Fraser — who says he has not seen it, although he has mates, co-workers and associates who’ve — reveals he’s unsure, earlier than defending the movie in opposition to studies that it examined poorly with audiences.
“They all say really good things about it. But the thing about it was is, it was screened in a garden variety test screening. It was a director’s cut. First cut. It wasn’t finished. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I don’t eat half-baked cake. I don’t want to see something that’s not ready yet,” he mentioned. “And the sad thing is, is that I don’t know if it was judged on merit. It wasn’t shown in the best light that it could have had been.”
He goes on to say that after the finished movie is out on this planet, “it’s open season to criticize it or praise it,” however returns to the concept that “this didn’t even really get a fair shake.” However there’s another excuse why Fraser is upset Batgirl’s launch future is dim and it has extra to do with star Leslie Grace, who the actor known as “really terrific” and a “dynamo.”
“Little girls are going to have to wait longer now before they can see a Batgirl who they can identify,” he mentioned. “That says, ‘Hey, she looks just like me, too,’ in Leslie Grace.”
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