Rebecca Hall regrets apologising for working with Woody Allen.
Rebecca Hall feels regret after her statement on working with Woody Allen
The 42-year-old actress starred in the controversial filmmaker’s 2008 movie ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ before going on to appear in 2019’s ‘A Rainy Day In New York’, but after feeling pressured to speak out against the director – whose daughter Dylan Farrow accused him of sexually abusing her as a child – and donating her fee for the latter movie to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, she has now admitted she wishes she hadn’t done so.
Rebecca felt her remarks were misconstrued and she doesn’t think it is an actor’s “responsibility” to get involved in such situations.
She told Observer magazine: “It’s very unlike me to make a public statement about anything. I make the stuff, that’s how I am political. I don’t think of myself as an ‘actor-vist’, I’m not that person.
“And, I kind of regret making that statement, because I don’t think it’s the responsibility of his actors to speak to that situation.”
While working on the movie, sexual misconduct allegations about its producer Harvey Weinstein broke for the first time, and Rebecca found herself constantly quizzed about the two men, leaving her in a “tangle” and feeling she had no choice but to make her statement.
She recalled: Like, in this moment, it’s the most important thing to believe the women. Yes, of course, there’s going to be complications and nuances in these stories, but we’re redressing a balance here. So I felt like I wanted to do something definitive.”
Explaining she wanted to retain balance while admitting her unease about the allegations, she added: “But it just became, ‘another person denounces Woody Allen and regrets working with him’, which is not what I said actually. I don’t regret working with…
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