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Thursday 18 January 2018
More actors expressing regret

about working with Woody Allen

By JAKE COYLE beloved and reviled figure ducer Isa Hackett while she
AP Film Writer in movies. Financial support was working on the Ama-
NEW YORK (AP) — A grow- for the filmmaker has not zon series “The Man in the
ing number of actors are previously waned in part High Castle.”
distancing themselves from because of the eagerness “A Rainy Day in New York”
Woody Allen and his next many stars have for work- is the fourth project for Al-
film, heightening questions ing with a cinematic leg- len with Amazon, which
about the future of the pro- end. But fielding a starry bet heavily on the film-
lific 82-year-old filmmaker cast may prove increas- maker to help establish its
in a Hollywood newly sensi- ingly difficult for Allen in a film production arm as a
In this Jan. 13, 2018, file photo, Timothee Chalamet attends the tive to allegations of sexual movie industry in the midst home to auteur filmmakers.
43rd Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards in Los misconduct. of a “Me Too” reckoning. It reportedly spent $80 mil-
Angeles.
Associated Press Timothee Chalamet on “If I had known then what I lion to lure Allen into televi-
Tuesday said he will donate know now, I would not have sion to make the 2016 series
his salary for an upcoming acted in the film,” Greta “Crisis in Six Scenes.”
Woody Allen film to three Gerwig, who co-starred in Amazon, which didn’t re-
charities fighting sexual ha- Allen’s 2012 comedy “To spond to queries Tuesday,
rassment and abuse: Time’s Rome With Love,” told The also distributed Allen’s
Up, the LGBT Center in New New York Times last week . “Cafe Society” in 2016 and
York and RAINN. The break- “I have not worked for him “Wonder Wheel,” which
out star of “Call Me By Your again, and I will not work opened December 1. It
Name” announced on for him again. Dylan Far- has grossed a mere $1.4
Instagram that he didn’t row’s two different pieces million domestically on an
want to profit from his work made me realize that I in- estimated budget of $25
on Allen’s “A Rainy Day in creased another woman’s million but had more suc-
New York,” which wrapped pain, and I was heartbro- cess overseas, grossing
shooting in the fall. ken by that realization.” $7.8 million. “A Rainy Day
“I want to be worthy of New remarks by Farrow in New York,” a romantic
standing shoulder to shoul- were aired Wednesday as comedy due out sometime
der with the brave artists a prelude to what “CBS this year, also stars Selena
who are fighting for all peo- This Morning” calls her first Gomez, Jude Law, Liev
ple to be treated with the on-camera discussion of Schreiber and Elle Fanning.
respect and dignity they the issue. “Why shouldn’t I In his statement, Chalamet
deserve,” said Chalamet. want to bring him down?” tellingly noted that due to
Chalamet is just the latest she said in response to a “contractual obligations”
cast member of an Allen question. “Why shouldn’t he couldn’t comment on
production to express re- I be angry? Why shouldn’t the long-standing allega-
gret or guilt about being I be hurt? Why shouldn’t I tions against Allen.
professionally associated feel some sort of outrage ... The announcement by
with the director. In recent after all these years, being Chalamet, a favorite Oscar
weeks, Rebecca Hall (“A ignored and disbelieved, contender for best actor
Rainy Day in New York,” and tossed aside?” this year, followed a similar
‘’Vicky Cristina Barcelo- Asked why she hopes peo- one Friday by his co-star
na”), Mira Sorvino (“Mighty ple will believe her now, Hall. She said she was do-
Aphrodite”), Ellen Page she replied, “I suppose nating her salary from the
(“To Rome With Love”), that’s on them. All I can do film to Time’s Up, the re-
David Krumholtz (“Wonder is speak my truth.” cently formed initiative to
Wheel”) and Griffith New- Farrow has previously combat gender inequality
man (“A Rainy Day in New questioned why the “Me in the entertainment indus-
York”) have all in some way Too” movement hasn’t try. “It’s a small gesture and
distanced themselves from ensnarled Allen. In an op- not one intended as close
Allen or vowed that they ed published last month in to compensation,” Hall
wouldn’t work with him The Los Angeles Times , she wrote on Instagram.
again. Dylan Farrow, Allen’s wrote: “Why is it that Harvey Some have continued
adopted daughter, in 2014 Weinstein and other accu- to publicly support Allen,
renewed the claim that Al- seelebrities have been cast though, including Alec
len molested her in an at- out by Hollywood, while Al- Baldwin.
tic in 1992 when she was len recently secured a mul- “Woody Allen was investi-
seven. Allen, who has long timillion-dollar distribution gated forensically by two
denied the allegations, deal with Amazon, greenlit states (NY and CT) and no
was investigated for the in- by former Amazon Studios charges were filed,” Bald-
cident but not charged. executive Roy Price before win said Tuesday on Twit-
The rising chorus of actors he was suspended over ter. “The renunciation of
renouncing Allen suggests sexual misconduct allega- him and his work, no doubt,
the road ahead for the him tions?” has some purpose. But
may be particularly chal- Price, the former head of it’s unfair and sad to me.
lenging, even for a direc- Amazon Studios, resigned I worked with Woody Al-
tor whose personal contro- in October following an al- len three times and it was
versies have for decades legation that he had sexu- one of the privileges of my
made him an alternatively ally harassed television pro- career.”q