Back in 2018,Rebecca Hallissued apublic apologyfor working with controversial directorWoody Allenon two films.
Now she’s not so sure she’s sorry after all.
“I struggle with this one,” the actress said ina new interviewThe Guardian.
Woody Allen and Rebecca Hall in 2008.Walter McBride/Corbis via Getty
“It’s very unlike me to make a public statement about anything.
I make the stuff, that’s how I am political.
I don’t think of myself as an ‘actor-vist’, I’m not that person.
Rebecca Hall in 2024.River Callaway/WWD via Getty
I don’t regret working with him.
He gave me a great job opportunity and he was kind to me.”
Don’t come out and state your stuff so much.
I don’t think that makes me apathetic or not engaged.
I just think it’s my job."
As for what isn’t her job?
Allen has been a controversial figure for decades.
In 1992, his exMia Farrowpublicly allegedthat he molested their 7-year-old adopted daughter,Dylan Farrow.
Allen hasconsistently deniedthe allegations against him and has never been charged with a crime.
“And that day, the Weinstein scandal breaks.
Hall described being “in a tangle.
Like, in this moment, it’s the most important thing to believe the women.
So I felt like I wanted to do something definitive.”
Allenannounced his retirementfrom filmmaking in 2022 after completing his 50th feature as a director,Coup De Chance.
Hall meanwhile is starring in the BBC thrillerThe Listeners.
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