Rebecca Hall Walks Back Woody Allen Apology: 'I Don't Regret Working With Him'
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The actor starred in two films from the director and said in 2018 how "profoundly sorry" she was, only to renege in an interview Sunday.
Rebecca Hall says she doesn’t regret working with Woody Allen despite him being famously accused by ex-wife Mia Farrow of sexually abusing their adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was a child.
Hall starred in Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (2008) and “A Rainy Day in New York” (2019), which hit theaters when former collaborators started speaking out against him for the alleged abuse.
At the time, Hall not only pledged her “Rainy Day” salary to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund to support victims of sexual abuse in Hollywood but also publicly shared how “profoundly sorry” she was to have worked with Allen. But now she is reneging on the statement.
“I struggle with this one,” Hall told The Guardian in an interview published Sunday, referring to her decision to speak out against Allen. “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,” she continued.