The Golden Globes stumble as the award season kicks into gear
Following a very strange year for the entertainment industry (and the world in general, for that matter), a very unconventional award season is now upon us. The elaborate shindigs may have been replaced by Zoom conference calls from the comfort of the celebrities’ couches, but not even a global pandemic has managed to put a damper on Hollywood’s televised annual self-congratulation spree.
Kicking things off with (some) style (and several technical glitches) were the Golden Globes with their first ever virtual, bi-coastal ceremony. Given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the Globes were overshadowed this year by the workings of the very organization behind them. And, like every year, the show’s attempts to honour the best big and small screen efforts delivered a varied supply of snubs, upsets, criticisms, surprises and triumphs.
Brendan Fraser is slated to star in a movie adaptation of
The
Whale, in which he will play a 600-pound reclusive gay man desperate to reconnect with his teen daughter.
With Darren Aronofsky directing, Fraser will play Charlie, who left his family for his male partner. But after his partner dies, Charlie spirals into grief – prompting him to seek out his 17-year-old daughter, according to
The upcoming film is based on the off-Broadway production by Samuel Hunter, which opened in 2012 to critical acclaim and won the Drama Desk Award and the Lucille Lortel Award.
Fraser, who with his broad shoulders and gentle smile burst into the 1990s film scene headlining blockbuster franchises as well as critically-acclaimed comedies, took a hiatus from acting in the early 2000s.