Colin Firth has joined a growing list of actors vowing never to work again with Woody Allen.
Firth, who starred in Allen’s 2014 film “Magic in the Moonlight,” told the Guardian that he won’t collaborate on any more projects with the controversial director-actor.
“I wouldn’t work with him again,” Firth said in response to a query from the publication.
The Guardian posed the question to Firth on Thursday, the same day Dylan Farrow gave her first televised interview accusing Allen, her adoptive father, of sexually assaulting her when she was 7.
“I am credible, and I am telling the truth, and I think it’s important that people realize that one victim, one accuser, matters,” Farrow, now 32, said in an interview with “CBS This Morning,” according to E!News.
Allen, who has steadfastly denied the allegations, responded with a statement to CBS.
“But even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time’s Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn’t make it any more true today than it was in the past,” he said in the statement. “I never molested my daughter — as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago.”
In light of Hollywood’s Time’s Up movement and the renewed interest in Farrow’s allegations, actors who had previously worked with Allen have been trying to distance themselves from him.
Mira Sorvino, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, Rachel Brosnahan, Rebecca Hall and Timothée Chalamet are among those who have expressed regret in working with Allen. Hall and Chalamet, who have roles in Allen’s upcoming “A Rainy Day in New York,” said they will donate their salaries to charities, including the Time’s Up campaign.
Gerwig, the writer and director of “Lady Bird,” was one of the first actors to come out publicly against Allen. She acted in Allen’s 2012 movie “To Rome with Love.”
“I can only speak for myself and what I’ve come to is this: If I had known then what I know now, I would not have acted in the film,” she said. “I have not worked for him again, and I will not work for him again.”
Sorvino, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in Allen’s 1995 “Mighty Aphrodite,” issued an open letter denouncing her former filmmaking “hero” and apologizing to Farrow for initially not believing her claims against Allen.
