For his performance in The Whale, Brendan Fraser is nominated for his first Best Actor Oscar.
Austin Butler won the category for Elvis.
During his interview with Howard Stern, Fraser said that Butler’s Globes win for “Elvis” was “well deserved” and a “big win for him.” He added that he had no interest in winning the prize himself.
Fraser continued, “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?”
When asked if he felt other actors should have joined him in not going to the Globes, Fraser responded, “It’s my fight, no one else’s…I don’t need everyone to stand in solidarity with me….Maybe. But, you know, it would be a leap of faith for whoever that would be. It would be a calculated risk and it could also be trivialized very easily by the cynical view of this all.”
“I honestly don’t even wanna think about it that much because it’s not that important to me,” Fraser continued about the Globes. “And the good news is, they did something important in that broadcast and it changed my thinking about them: they put Zelenskyy front and center. They let him have the stage, and that’s a powerful statement and something I can get behind and support.”
Fraser confirmed to GQ magazine in November that he would be skipping the Globes, “No, I will not participate… It’s because of the history that I have with them. And my mother didn’t raise a hypocrite. You can call me a lot of things, but not that.”
For his performance in The Whale, Brendan Fraser is nominated for his first Best Actor Oscar.
