Brendan Fraser on Golden Globes Boycott, Destiny of HBO Max’s Batgirl – The Hollywood Reporter

Brendan Fraser nonetheless doesn’t know if his Golden Globes nomination for The Whale was cynical or real, however both means, he says the win wouldn’t have been “significant to me.”

Throughout his first-ever look on The Howard Stern Present, 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 want everybody to face in solidarity with me,” the actor mentioned, including that he believes that is his struggle and “nobody else’s.” However Fraser did acknowledge standing with him in his calls for for actual reform on the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation can be an enormous — although optically sophisticated — step. “It will be a leap of religion for whoever that may be,” he defined. “It will be a calculated threat and it is also trivialized very simply 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 means after he was allegedly groped by a now-expelled member. “Truthfully, my mom didn’t elevate a hypocrite, and I didn’t wanna sit and really feel like I actually don’t know if I need this,” he advised Stern.

And whereas the actor didn’t win, he mentioned getting the glory — which in the end went to Elvis’ Austin Butler — not solely meant so little to him, it additionally left him “questioning is that this a cynical nomination.”

“I couldn’t actually inform due to my historical past with them and that I nonetheless have but to see the outcomes from their reformation. All of us are nonetheless awaiting that, to let you know the reality,” Fraser defined. “Get it or don’t get it, doesn’t matter. What does matter is that it will imply nothing to me. I don’t need it. I didn’t ask to be thought of even, that was presumed.”

For Fraser, it could have additionally been a second of vindication. “They wanted me, I didn’t want them,” he mentioned. “The place am I gonna put that hood decoration? What would I do with that?”

As for a 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 household and my buddies.”

“I by no means noticed the results of that report. They wouldn’t give it to me, they mentioned, no, it’s ours. So no matter’s in it, they don’t need me to learn it,” he continued. “As an alternative I used to be given a press launch that mentioned 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 take into consideration [the nomination] that a lot.” As an alternative, he took the time to rejoice one factor he believes was a step in the correct route for the awarding physique.

“The excellent news is, they did one thing essential in that broadcast and it modified my fascinated with them: They put [Ukrainian President] Zelensky entrance and middle,” the actor mentioned. “They let him have the stage, and that’s a strong assertion and one thing I can get behind and assist.”

At one other level within the interview, Fraser spoke to Stern about Warner Bros. Disocvery’s determination 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 a component he “relished” and was “very, excellent on paper.”

“It was a narrative a few man who had been within the service and his advantages had been lower and he was very offended with system, and what else was he going to do however burn it to the bottom?” Fraser mentioned, visibly excited concerning the half. “You’ve bought some sympathy to him. You’ve additionally bought some humanity to him and on high of {that a} screw free as a result of you understand he’s a nasty man. However is he actually? All the perfect dangerous guys, you type of like them somewhat 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 buddies, co-workers and associates who’ve — reveals he’s unsure, earlier than defending the movie towards stories that it examined poorly with audiences.

“All of them say actually good issues about it. However the factor about it was is, it was screened in a backyard selection take a look at screening. It was a director’s lower. First lower. It wasn’t completed. I imply, I don’t learn about you, however I don’t eat half-baked cake. I don’t wish to see one thing that’s not prepared but,” he mentioned. “And the unhappy factor is, is that I don’t know if it was judged on advantage. It wasn’t proven in the perfect gentle that it may have had been.”

He goes on to say that when the finished movie is out on this planet, “it’s open season to criticize it or reward it,” however returns to the concept “this didn’t even actually get a good shake.” However there’s one more reason why Fraser is disillusioned Batgirl’s launch future is dim and it has extra to do with star Leslie Grace, who the actor referred to as “actually terrific” and a “dynamo.”

“Little ladies are going to have to attend longer now earlier than they will see a Batgirl who they will determine,” he mentioned. “That claims, ‘Hey, she appears similar to me, too,’ in Leslie Grace.”