Alex Baldwin (L); Woody Allen.Photo: Mark Sagliocco/Getty; Samir Hussein/WireImage
Alec Baldwinwill be going live on Instagram withWoody Allen.
The 64-year-old actor revealed Sunday that he’ll be sitting down with the controversial filmmaker, 86, live on the social media platform on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m.
Inhis video announcement, Baldwin — who made the moviesAlice(1990),To Rome with Love(2012) andBlue Jasmine(2013) with Allen — holds up a copy of Allen’s bookZero Gravitybefore saying, “I’m gonna be doing an Instagram Live with Woody Allen, who I love. I love you, Woody.”
His upcoming interview comes eight years after Allen’s daughterDylan Farrowdetailed molestation allegations against her father in aNew York Timesop-ed, claiming he sexually assaulted her when she was 7 years old.
Though Allen has maintained his innocence over the years, Dylan’s accusations resurfaced amid the #MeToo movement, and the public has since held Allen to more scrutiny than ever before. A recent HBO docuseries titledAllen v. Farrowrecounted the sexual abuse allegations, featuring interviews with Dylan, who is now 36, and more involved.
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Allen has long denied the allegations, which first surfaced during his explosive 1992 split fromMia Farrow. Allen was not charged, though a Connecticut prosecutor said there wasprobable cause for a criminal case.
“It’s so preposterous, and yet the smear has remained,” Allen said in a2020 interview that was released on Paramount+in March. “And they still prefer to cling to if not the notion that I molested Dylan, the possibility that I molested her. Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could be misconstrued as that.”
In January 2018, Baldwincalled criticism of Allenover longstanding sexual abuse allegations “unfair and sad.” The actor also referred to the long list of former collaborators who have since denounced the director andpledged to never work with him again.
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“My inclination to want to defend my friends — who either A) I thought were innocent, which is Woody or B) I had no knowledge of what they did and I still have no knowledge of what they did, which is Toback — is a normal inclination,” he explained.
Dylan appeared onThe Drew Barrymore Showlast year todiscuss her allegations with Barrymore, who acted in Allen’s 1996 filmEveryone Says I Love You. Barrymore, 47, explained that she was “basically gaslit into not looking at a narrative beyond what I was being told” when she took the role.
source: people.com
