The ever-humble Alec Baldwin wants you to know he doesn’t care what you think. The actor announced Sunday evening that he will conduct an interview with director Woody Allen on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. live on Instagram, regardless of the sexual assault allegations that precede it.
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“If you believe a trial should be held via an HBO documentary, that’s your problem,” Baldwin wrote Sunday night to a very enthusiastic video post. This post reads like a thinly veiled critique of Allen v. Farrowa four-episode series airing in February 2021 in which the filmmaker’s adopted daughter Annie Hall, Dylan Farrow, claims again to have been the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of his father. These allegations, first made public in 1992, resurfaced in 2017 in the wake of the #metoo movement.
Several actors who had filmed with Allen then declared that they regretted having collaborated with him, including Evan Rachel Wood, Mira Sorvino, Timothée Chalamet, Natalie Portman, Colin Firth and Elle Fanning. In January 2018, Baldwin described on Twitter the multiplication of these acts of contrition as “unjust and sad”. “Is it possible to support survivors of pedophilia and sexual abuse and also believe that WA [Woody Allen] is innocent? I think so, ”he added in another tweet.
Alec Baldwin, who appears in the credits of three feature films by the director (Alice, To Rome with Love, Blue Jasmine) has himself come under fire since accidentally causing the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film. Rust in October 2021. The family of the deceased filed a lawsuit against the actor last February.