Rebecca Hall and Timothée Chalamet Donate Their Woody Allen Movie Salaries to Time’s Up
Over the weekend actors, Rebecca Hall and Timothée Chalamet decided to donate their Woody Allen movie salaries to the organization Time’s Up.
Former collaborators of Allen have been coming forward denouncing him and saying they will no longer work with him, including director Greta Gerwig. In an interview, Gerwig said, “If I had known then what I know now, I would not have acted in the film. I have not worked for him again, and I will not work for him again. Dylan Farrow’s two different pieces made me realize that I increased another woman’s pain, and I was heartbroken by that realization. I grew up on his movies, and they have informed me as an artist, and I cannot change that fact now, but I can make different decisions moving forward.”
While that statement came after a lot of online criticism came towards Gerwig after calling Allen one of her “heroes” and not denouncing him at the Golden Globes, it is good to see people in power wanting to acknowledge their mistakes and making an effort to do more.
Rebecca Hall, who got one of her big breaks in the Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona as the Vicky, and was going to have a scene in the upcoming A Rainy Day in New York, posted a Times Up image with a caption explaining that she would be donating her salary to Time’s Up.
Monday, Chalamet also made a statement on his Instagram, also saying that he would be donating his salary because he doesn’t “want to profit from my work on the film.”
Previously, Mira Sorvino also spoke up to HuffPost apologizing to Dylan Farrow for not believing her. “I confess that at the time I worked for Woody Allen I was a naïve young actress. I swallowed the media’s portrayal of your abuse allegations against your father as an outgrowth of a twisted custody battle between Mia Farrow and him, and did not look further into the situation, for which I am terribly sorry.”
The tide is turning on Woody Allen and it fantastic to see all of these stars coming out and admitting their regrets, while also calling out where they got their biases from. It’ll be interesting how the rest of the former Allen/Polanski roster deal with these questions in the future.
Who are we still waiting to hear from? Kate Winslet, Selena Gomez, Justin Timberlake, Elle Fanning, Blake Lively, and Jim Belushi.
(via The Daily Dot , image: MGM/Sony )
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