Actor Rebecca Hall, who has a role in Woody Allen’s new film, has announced that she would not work with the embattled director in the future and was donating her wages to the Time’s Up initiative.
Hall, who starred in Allen’s 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, is the latest high-profile actor to denounce the film-maker and apologize for working with him, following statements by Mira Sorvino and Greta Gerwig.
Her post on Instagram comes a month after Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow wrote an op-ed about her anger with Hollywood continuing to support her father amid a reckoning on sexual abuse, despite her allegations that he sexually assaulted her as a child.
“After reading and re-reading Dylan Farrow’s statements of a few days ago and going back and reading the older ones – I see, not only how complicated this matter is, but that my actions have made another woman feel silenced and dismissed,” Hall wrote. “That is not something that sits easily with me in the current or indeed any moment, and I am profoundly sorry. I regret this decision and wouldn’t make the same one today.”
The day after the Weinstein accusation broke in full force I was shooting a day of work on Woody… https://t.co/ivlszR11MV
— Rebecca Hall (@realrebeccahall) January 12, 2018
Hall, daughter of director Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, said she was filming Allen’s new film, A Rainy Day in New York, when the news about sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein broke last year. Although Allen gave her one of her first significant film roles, she said she eventually felt “conflicted and saddened” about her decision to appear in his next film.
Hall said she would donate to the Time’s Up campaign, which is aimed at combatting sexual harassment in Hollywood and other industries.
“I’ve also signed up, will continue to donate, and look forward to working with and being part of this positive movement towards change not just in Hollywood but hopefully everywhere.”
Allen’s new film also stars Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Jude Law, Elle Fanning, Liev Schreiber and Diego Luna. Griffin Newman, an actor with a small role in the film, said last year that he regretted it and would donate his salary.