The British comedian and actor, long host of the ceremony who is trying to restore his image, assured that he will no longer lend himself to the exercise.
In 2020, when he was once again hosting the Golden Globes ceremony, the British comedian and humorist had warned – between two irreverent jokes – that it was the last time we would see him officiating at the gala desk.
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In 2022, the hero of the series after-life did not change his mind. To a user who asked his subscribers on Twitter if they wanted to see Ricky Gervais return to service, the person concerned replied with his usual rough outspokenness: “p****n out of the question”.
After having played the masters of ceremonies five times, including three times in a row between 2010 and 2012, we can understand the weariness of the Briton faced with this thankless mission where we can only take blows. If the exercise had so much seduced Ricky Gervais, it was because the Golden Globes let him write his own jokes. Often acid with regard to studios and megastars. How to forget, for example, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino lasts nearly three hours. Leonardo DiCaprio attended the premiere, and at the end, his girlfriend was too old for him”? Freedom of tone that the Oscars refused him deplored the troublemaker of The Office.
Poor image of the Golden Globes
The pitiful image of the Golden Globes is hardly likely either to arouse the desire of Ricky Gervais or his friends who must really canvass the producers. Long erected as an antechamber and prophet of the Oscars, the Golden Globes and its organizer the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) have become the plague victims of the awards season. In question ? The revelations in 2021 of the Los Angeles Times and the specialized press on the extent of corruption, sexism or racism within the structure. Of the 101 voting journalists who made it up, none was African-American.
The scandal had been such that NBC had passed its turn on the 2022 ceremony urging the Golden Globes to take advantage of an unceremonious year to act. More than a hundred officers had written to the HFPA in the spring of 2021 asking it to end “discriminatory and unprofessional behavior”. Coerced and coerced, the HFPA, which operated on nebulous co-option, proceeded to an unprecedented recruitment of new members to improve the representation of minorities within it. 103 new arrivals were welcomed, doubling the electorate.
Coaxed and with the approval of certain agents who regret the free platform offered by the Golden Globes, the official broadcaster of the NBC ceremony has agreed to ensure the retransmission of the evening on January 10th. It remains to be seen whether the talents will dare to come back en masse to tread a red carpet that they have recently decried a lot.
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