Film director Woody Allen has finally spoken out about the #MeToo movement, saying it's inaccurate for him to be lumped in with other accused men and claiming he should be a "poster boy for the #MeToo movement."
“I’m a big advocate of the #MeToo movement. I feel when they find people who harass innocent women and men, it’s a good thing that they’re exposing them,” Allen told Argentinian news program "Periodismo Para Todos" ("Journalism For All"), Quartz reported Monday.
The international #MeToo movement against sexual assault and harassment was prompted in large part by sexual assault claims that came to light against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Attorney and journalist Ronan Farrow, Allen’s estranged son, shared a Pulitzer Prize for an investigative report he wrote describing the allegations lodged against Weinstein.
"I should be the poster boy for the #MeToo movement, because I have worked in movies for 50 years," Allen, 82, told Periodismo Para Todos. “I’ve worked with hundreds of actresses and not a single one — big ones, famous ones, ones starting out — have ever ever suggested any kind of impropriety at all. I’ve always had a wonderful record with them.”
However, four years ago, Allen’s stepdaughter, Dylan Farrow, claimed in an open letter in The New York Times that Allen sexually assaulted her at the age of 7 and continued to do so for years afterwards.
Allen categorically denied those allegations during the interview.
“This is something that has been thoroughly looked at 25 years ago by all the authorities and everybody came to the conclusion that it was untrue,” he said. “And that was the end and I’ve gone on with my life. For it to come back now, it’s a terrible thing to accuse a person of. I’m a man with a family and my own children. So of course it’s upsetting.”
She didn't accuse Allen of inappropriate behavior, but in her book "Out Came the Sun," actress Mariel Hemingway alleged Allen "had a kind of crush" on her and invited her to Paris several times, Fox News reported in 2015. Hemingway played a starring role in Allen’s 1979 film “Manhattan.”
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