In a new interview with France24 (via THR), Woody Allen claims he has done a lot for #MeToo over the years:
“I’ve worked with hundreds of actresses [and] not one of them has ever complained about me, not a single complaint,” said Allen. “I’ve worked with, employed women in the top capacity, in every capacity, for years and we’ve always paid them exactly the equal of men. I’ve done everything that the #MeToo movement would love to achieve.”
Allen actually just finished production on his most recent film, starring Christoph Waltz, and says he has started work on another entirely new script — so the idea of being “blacklisted” to him seems like a rather silly concept:
“I couldn’t care less,” admitted the filmmaker. “I’ve never worked in Hollywood. I’ve always worked in New York and it doesn’t matter to me for a second. If tomorrow nobody would finance my films and nobody would finance my theater plays or nobody would publish my books, I’d still get up and write because that’s what I do. So I will always work. What happens to it commercially is another matter.”
He added, “I haven’t thought of retiring. I don’t have to make movies, if people didn’t want to finance my movies I would be very happy working in the theater, or writing books, but I like to get up and write. I don’t like to get up and do nothing.”