Rebecca Hall reverses Woody Allen’s stance, saying it’s not her ‘responsibility’ to be the ‘judge and jury’

Rebecca Hall is returning to the statement she made in 2018 about Woody Allen during the #MeToo movement after Dylan Farrow published an op-ed once again denouncing him for allegedly sexually assaulting her as a child.

Hall, who starred in Allen’s films A rainy day in New York And Vicky Cristina Barcelonaadmitted in an interview with The guardian that she regrets speaking out about her work with Allen at the time.

“I’m struggling with this one,” Hall said. “It’s completely unlike me to make a public statement about anything. I do things, that’s how I’m political. I don’t consider myself a “visitor-actor”, I’m not that person.

She added, “I kind of regret making that statement, because I don’t think it’s the actors’ responsibility to speak out about this situation.”

At the time, Hall wrote in the since-deleted post that Farrow’s op-ed helped her “see not only how complicated this case is, but also that my actions made another woman feel silenced and rejected,” according to Weekly Entertainment. She also announced in this message that she would donate her salary of A rainy day in New York to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.

Talk to The guardianHall explained that she wrote the statement after filming a scene with Jude Law for A rainy day in New York.

“I was out there doing a street scene with Jude Law where, literally, my dialogue was, ‘You need to stop sleeping with these fucking 15-year-olds.’ And that day, the (Harvey) Weinstein scandal broke,” she recalls. “There’s a bank of reporters and paparazzi right there, because Weinstein is a producer, and they’re all listening to me say this.”

She said The guardian“I was in a tangle. Right now, it’s the most important thing to believe women,” referring to her decision to speak out at the time. “Yes, of course there will be complications and nuances to these stories, but we are restoring a balance here. So I wanted to do something definitive.

The actress argued that actors should not take responsibility for the allegations surrounding Allen. For now, she says, her policy is simply to “be an artist.”

“It just became, ‘Another person denounces Woody Allen and regrets working with him,’ which is not what I actually said. I don’t regret working with him. He gave me a great job opportunity and he was good to me,” she said. “I don’t talk to him anymore, but I don’t think we should be the ones to be judge and jury in this. case.”

Allen has long denied Farrow’s accusations against him. He also notes that his career has not suffered from the accusations.

“The situation was investigated by two people, two major agencies, not people, but two major investigative agencies. And both, after lengthy, detailed investigations, concluded that these accusations were unfounded,” he said. Variety in a 2023 interview. “The fact that it continues always makes me think that maybe people like the idea of ​​it continuing. You know, maybe there’s something that attracts people. But why?

The allegations were also explored in the HBO documentary Allen v. Farrow.

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