Brendan Fraser has reflected on his return to the big screen, after his career was ‘derailed’. He retreated from the limelight after alleging that he was sexually assaulted by Philip Berk, the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Brendan Fraser has reflected on his return to the big screen, after his career was ‘derailed’ when he spoke out against an alleged sexual assault.
The 54-year-old’s new film, The Whale, is released in cinemas on December 9, marking his Hollywood comeback after he retreated from the limelight., the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, at a luncheon in 2003. The Mummy star went public with the incident in 2018, during a candid interview – after which Berk firmly denied the claims, andIn a new chat with CBS Mornings’ Lee Cowan, Fraser spoke of the impact that the alleged incident had on him, and his budding career.
When asked if the assault claims ‘derailed’ things in the industry, he said: ‘Well, yes, because there’s a system in place that is about power. And I had played by the rules up until that point.‘And I felt like, okay, now, suddenly, I’ve been violated. And it has gone too far. And I will no longer abide this.‘I spoke up because I saw so many of my friends and colleagues who, at that time, were bravely emerging to speak their truth to power,’ he added. ‘And I had something to say, too.
Fraser alleged that he was attending an event hosted at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2003, when Berk assaulted him.‘His left hand reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint. And he starts moving it around,’ he told GQ four years ago.‘I felt ill. I felt like a little kid. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry,’ he continued.
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