Woody Allen calls cancel culture ‘silly,’ ponders retirement at 87
nypost.comafter being dogged by decades-old sex abuse allegations from his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.The 87-year-old filmmaker made the statement Sunday in an interview with Variety at the Venice Film Festival, where he is promoting his new movie, “Coup de Chance.”“I feel if you’re going to be canceled, this is the culture to be canceled by.
I just find that all so silly,” Allen told the outlet, after the interviewer asked if he felt like he had been “canceled.” “I don’t think about it,” he added. “I don’t know what it means to be canceled.
I know that over the years everything has been the same for me. I make my movies. What has changed is the presentation of the films.” He continued to explain that everything about his process is the same, from writing the script to shooting it — but the presentation has been the “big change.”In the new interview, Allen once again denied abuse allegations that resurfaced in the 2021 HBO docuseries “Allen v.
Farrow.”In 1992, Farrow, then 7, claimed that Allen had molested her.The accusation came as Allen split from Mia Farrow amid revelations that Allen had an affair with Farrow’s then 22-year-old adopted daughter, Soon-Yi, whom he later married.
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