“It’s my fight, no one else’s,” The Whale star said.
“I don’t need everyone to stand in solidarity with me.”
“I found myself wondering is this a cynical nomination.
Brendan Fraser at the Critics Choice Awards 2023.Stefanie Keenan/Getty
We all are still awaiting that, to tell you the truth,” Fraser told Stern.
The Globes faced a massive backlash in February 2021 after anL.A.
Timesexposeuncovered thatthere were no Black membersamong the HFPA’s votership.
“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.
I know that would displease many people for lots of reasons,” Fraser said.
“They needed me, I didn’t need them.
Because it wouldn’t be meaningful to me.
Where am I gonna put that hood ornament?
What would I do with that?”
That, he said, would “be a leap of faith for whoever that would be.
After the 2018 GQ story, the HFPA issued a statement that it “stands firmly against sexual harassment.
Fraser ultimately did not sign the statement.
“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.
Instead I was given a press release that said it was a joke.”
