Woody Allen reflected on how his career changed after allegations circulated that he sexually abused his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, while sharing his thoughts on cancel culture in a new interview.
While speaking to The Wall Street Journal earlier this week, Allen again addressed the sexual abuse claims, maintaining his innocence, and spoke about the fallout from the controversy he faced, which has included a number of stars declaring they no longer want to work with him.
And he called cancel culture, “just dumb.”
Allen has adamantly denied the accusations that he molested Dylan when she was 7 years old. He previously reacted to the claims in his 2020 memoir Apropos of Nothing, alleging that Dylan grew convinced she was molested after her mother Mia Farrow used to sing her a song called “Daddy in the Attic.”
However, Dylan stood by the allegations while issuing a statement to The Wall Street Journal. “I am sick and tired of the misogynistic and unscientific narrative that I was coached or brainwashed. Far from it, this is a truth I reported as a child and have continued to recount consistently since,” she said. “I am a 40-year-old woman. I was sexually assaulted by Woody Allen.”
While Allen has maintained his innocence, he acknowledged that many actors have not wanted to work with him in light of the allegations. “If an actor says, ‘I won’t work with him,’ basically, the actor is thinking, ‘I’m doing a good thing,’ from his point of view, ‘I’m making a contribution, I’m making a statement,’” he told The Wall Street Journal. “But he’s really making a mistake. Some day he may learn that.”
Michael Caine, Colin Firth and Greta Gerwig are among several of the actors who have said they would never work with Allen, while many have been open about regretting working with him in the past. Despite having his former collaborators turn their backs on him, Allen insisted he doesn’t get “angry.”
“I would think they would have more common sense, when they read about the situation. What surprises me, always, is how ready and willing people are to embrace it,” he said. “I would think someone reading the details would think, ‘That’s a little dicey looking to me.’”
Allen spoke about cancel culture one year after Mia admitted she was able to separate her experiences as a collaborator of Allen’s and the “trials and tribulations” that followed in their personal lives.
“I completely understand if an actor decides to work with him. I’m not one who’d say, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t,’” Mia, who worked on 13 films with Allen, added while appearing on CBS Sunday Morning in September 2024.
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