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Brendan Fraseris happy to have reunited withLeonardo DiCaprioforKillers of the Flower Moon.
In a new interview withGQpublished on Wednesday, Fraser, 53, spoke about running into theOnce Upon a Time… in Hollywoodactor for the first time in years when they started filmingMartin Scorsese’s upcoming crime drama.
Fraser, who can soon be seen inThe Whale, told the outlet that he first met DiCaprio, now 48, “when he was I think probably all of, I don’t know, 17, 16 maybe,” and had just starred in 1993’sWhat’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
“I think I had just been inSchool Tiesor something then,” Fraser said of meeting DiCaprio in the ’90s. “And I was, like, flummoxed but I just wanted to tell him, ‘Hear, hear. That was incredible.’ "
“And he repeated that to me,” the actor said of speaking with DiCaprio when they reunited for their new movie. “He remembered me. He said: ‘You were the only guy who didn’t treat me like a little kid.’ "
“He volunteered that to me,” Fraser told the outlet. “That was meaningful.”
Though Fraser and DiCaprio’s careers careened in different paths after they both rose to fame in the ’90s, the two actors find themselves together again in the upcoming film from Scorsese, 80, with Fraser set to play a defense lawyer, according toGQ.
“I was fantasizing that I felt like one of the apprentices in Michelangelo’s workshop,” Fraser said of stepping onto a set with DiCaprio and the iconic director forKillers of the Flower Moon.
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Killers of the Flower Moon, expected to release in 2023, is based on David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction novel. The film is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murders of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.
In Fraser’sGQcover profile Thursday, the actor also said that he will not attend theGolden Globe Awards, even if he receives an acting nomination for his much-buzzed-about performance inThe Whale.
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Asked whether he would go to the event, which is planned for Jan. 10, Frasersaid he “will not participate.”
“I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” he added, citing the nonprofit organization that votes for the Golden Globe awards.
“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,” Fraser said.
Brendan Fraser on the cover ofGQ.Andreas Laszlo Konrath/GQ
The Mummystar has claimed that former HFPA President Philip Berk sexuallyassaulted him in the summer of 2003, while at a luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel — an alleged incident Berk, 89, disputes. Fraser has said he believes he was blacklisted in Hollywood partly due to the aftermath of the alleged incident.
According to the actor, the assault happened when Berk reached out to shake Fraser’s hand on his way out of the hotel. “His left handreaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint. And he starts moving it around,” Fraser claimed toGQin 2018.
Berk did not previously respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment about the alleged incident, but hasdenied the assault ever happenedtoThe New York Times.
Killers of the Flower Moonis expected to release in 2023.
source: people.com
