In a new interview with the Guardian, Woody Allen acknowledges that the smear campaign concocted against him by the Farrows will probably stick with him for the rest of his career and life:
“I assume that for the rest of my life a large number of people will think I was a predator,” he said. “Anything I say sounds self-serving and defensive, so it’s best if I just go my way and work.”
The #MeToo movement, pardon my French, fucked Allen over. Simple as that. The allegations against him were vetted to the nth degree back in the ‘90s, he was, more or less, exonerated by the courts and the media, then went on to create great films such as “Bullets Over Broadway,” “Blue Jasmine,” and “Midnight in Paris” over the next 20+ years. Then journalist Ronan Farrow, fresh off his landmark Harvey Weinstein NYT piece, which is said to have kickstarted the #MeToo movement back in 2017, decided to help out mama Mia, take advantage of the hostile climate, and throw Allen under the bus, hoping, unlike in the ‘90s, that the savagely hungry media would bite. That, they did. This has led to an unfair Hollywood backlash against Allen, with studios and distributors not wanting to work with the director anymore and even led to some actors who previously starred in his films publicly denouncing him.
In the Guardian piece, Allen states the latter are egotistical actors who truly believe their stance is sincere, but have absolutely no clue about the actual exculpatory evidence that has been readily available for public consumption now for the better part of 25 years:
“It’s silly,” Allen said. “The actors have no idea of the facts and they latch on to some self-serving, public, safe position. Who in the world is not against child molestation? That’s how actors and actresses are, and [denouncing me] became the fashionable thing to do, like everybody suddenly eating kale.”
I wrote in “The Case for Woody Allen’s Innocence”:
Although some of the recent actors and actresses who have worked with Allen the last decade raised a spark akin to a domino effect in the industry, with Ellen Page, Greta Gerwig, Rebecca Hall, and Timothée Chalamet all expressing remorse in having worked with the director in the past, others who have worked with Allen, such as Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett, Diane Keaton, and Alec Baldwin refused to adhere to the mob mentality and condemn Allen.
I assume these actors have read enough about the case to raise their own conspicuous doubts. If you are the kind of person who is open-minded and would rather inform themself rather than be lazy and just trust inauthentic views of the Woody Allen case, then by all means, read Robert Weide’s excellent dissections of Allen vs Farrow which were posted on 12.13.17, 5.30.16, and, most recently, 1.14.18.
Weide, and many others with enough knowledge to know better that to accuse Allen, have made the case that Woody Allen was alone with Dylan Farrow in his apartment countless times over the years and could have abused her, without witnesses, any of those times. Child molestation is a compulsive illness, it demands repetition. The fact that Allen's alleged sex abuse history is limited to just Dylan Farrow, that one time, goes against everything sexual abuse psychologists have been saying the last 100 years about sex abuse.
Ronan and Dylan’s brother, Moses Farrow, has vehemently defended his dad, Woody Allen, over the years, saying “My mother [Mia Farrow] drummed it into me to hate my father for tearing apart the family and sexually molesting my sister, and I hated him for her for years. I see now that this was a vengeful way to pay him back for falling in love with Soon-Yi.”