Woody Allen Tells Alec Baldwin His Next Film Might Be His Last: ‘The Thrill Is Gone’
thewrap.comCBS News interview from last year. Since then, Amazon canceled a 4-film deal with the “Annie Hall” director and four-time Oscar winner, and numerous stars all disavowed having worked with him, including Kate Winslet (“Wonder Wheel”), Mira Sorvino (“Mighty Aphrodite”), Elliot Page (“To Rome With Love”) and Colin Firth (“Magic in the Moonlight”).
Allen has since then had trouble finding North American distribution for his films, including his most recent project “Rifkin’s Festival.” The Baldwin interview of Allen also follows an HBO documentary “Allen vs.
Farrow,” which delved deeper into the accusations and included new and previously unseen footage from Dylan Farrow, Mia Farrow and other family and friends that bolstered the case against Allen.Baldwin when he announced the interview on Sunday seemed to acknowledge how the documentary has shifted the conversation. “Let me preface this by stating that I have ZERO INTEREST in anyone’s judgments and sanctimonious posts here,” Baldwin wrote. “I am OBVIOUSLY someone who has my own set of beliefs and COULD NOT CARE LESS about anyone else’s speculation.
If you believe that a trial should be conducted by way of an HBO documentary, that’s your issue.”Baldwin is facing his own reputational firestorm after the movie-set shooting on the film “Rust” last year killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
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