Following her controversial defence of director Woody Allen amid the sexual harassment and assault allegations that emerged in Hollywood in September, Kate Winslet has spoken out again to support the Manhattan filmmaker.
Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's new film Wonder Wheel, said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald last week: 'I think on some level Woody [Allen] is a woman.'
While the publication describes the Oscar-winning actresses tone as humorous, it says she went onto comment:
'I just think he's very in touch with that side of himself. He understands the female characters he creates exceptionally well.
'His female characters are always so rich and large and honest in terms of how they're feeling and he just knows how to write dialogue for them to communicate all that.'
On Thursday, Allen's daughter Dylan Farrow - who penned a detailed account of alleged sexual abuse by the director in the New York Times in 2014 - wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times in which she questions how the #MeToo revolution spared the director.
She wrote:
'Why is it that Harvey Weinstein and other accused celebrities have been cast out by Hollywood, while Allen recently secured a multimillion-dollar distribution deal with Amazon, greenlit by former Amazon Studios executive Roy Price before he was suspended over sexual misconduct allegations?'
In the article, Farrow calls out several famous actresses who have worked with Allen on their alleged complicity and support of the filmmaker, despite allegations of sexual misconduct levied against him.
Among them, Farrow comments on an interview Winslet gave in the New York Times in September in which she said: 'I didn't know Woody and I don't know anything about that family.
'As the actor in the film, you just have to step away and say, I don't know anything, really, and whether any of it is true or false. Having thought it all through, you put it to one side and just work with the person.'
In response, Farrow wrote: 'In this deliberately created fog, A-list actors agree to appear in Allen's films and journalists tend to avoid the subject.'
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