“No, I will not participate.”
“And my mother didn’t raise a hypocrite.
you’re able to call me a lot of things, but not that.”
Brendan Fraser at a screening of ‘The Whale’.Manny Carabel/Getty Images
(Berk has denied the allegation.)
Fraser refused to cosign the statement.
“I knew they would close ranks,” Fraser said of the HFPA.
“I knew they would kick the can down the road.
I knew they would get ahead of the story.
I knew that I certainly had no future with that system as it was.”
He remembered learning the article was trending on Twitter and thinking, “Oh, my God.
Oh, f, what have I done now?”
He recalled: “It was people saying they like me.
And they referenced that piece.
I was like, Is this good, is this problematic?
I don’t know.
What did I do to earn this?”
“It’s like people know what you look like, they know the story about you.”
Overall though, he found the interview “liberating,” saying “it was a weight removed.”
Speaking out about the allegations, Fraiser said, helped bring him a measure of closure.
Asked if he believed in the reforms, the actor toldGQ, “At the moment, no.
I don’t know.”
I would want some gesture of making medicine out of poison somehow.
I don’t know what that is.
But that would be my hope."
EW has reached out to the HFPA for comment.
