Woody Allen On Cancel Culture: “I Find That All So Silly. I Don’t Know What It Means To Be Canceled”
deadline.comWhile promoting his 50th – and quite possibly, last — movie at the Venice Film Festival, Woody Allen weighed in cancel culture, the #MeToo Movement, and whether any woman has ever complained about his behavior on set. “I said years ago that I should have been a poster boy [for the #MeToo movement] and they got all excited about that,” Allen, 87, told Variety in an interview before Sunday’s premiere of the French language film that he wrote and directed. “I’ve made 50 films.
I’ve always had very good parts for women, always had women in the crew, always paid them the exact same amount that we paid men, worked with hundreds of actresses, and never, ever had a single complaint from any of them at any point.
Not a single one ever said, ‘Working with him, he was mean or he was harassing.’ That’s just not been an issue.” Allen was then asked whether he feels canceled. “I feel if you’re going to be canceled, this is the culture to be canceled by,” he replied. “I just find that all so silly.
I don’t think about it. I don’t know what it means to be canceled. I know that over the years everything has been the same for me.
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