Woody Allen claims in his new memoir that Timothée Chalamet denounced him in 2018 because the actor thought it would increase his chances of winning an Oscar.
Amid the #MeToo movement and following renewed allegations of childhood sexual abuse against Allen by his daughter Dylan Farrow, Chalamet, 24, announced that he would be donating the money he earned on Allen’s film “A Rainy Day in New York” to nonprofit Time’s Up, the LGBT Center in New York and RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. Allen, 84, now claims in “Apropos of Nothing” that Chalamet only made such a statement because he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for “Call Me by Your Name” (which he ended up losing to Gary Oldman for “Darkest Hour”).
“All the three leads in ‘Rainy Day’ were excellent and a pleasure to work with,” Allen writes in the book. “Timothée afterward publicly stated he regretted working with me and was giving the money to charity, but he swore to my sister he needed to do that as he was up for an Oscar for ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ and he and his agent felt he had a better chance of winning if he denounced me, so he did.”
Allen added, “Anyhow, I didn’t regret working with him and I’m not giving any of my money back.”
Page Six has reached out to Chalamet’s reps for comment.
Chalamet wasn’t the only Hollywood name to distance himself from Allen — who has long been accused of sexually abusing Farrow, a claim which he has vehemently denied — in recent years. Just three days before Chalamet, his “Rainy Day” co-star Rebecca Hall said she would donate her earnings to Time’s Up as well.
Other actors who denounced Allen following now 34-year-old Farrow’s renewed abuse allegations included Greta Gerwig, Mira Sorvino, Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Jeff Daniels and Freida Pinto.
Allen writes in the book, “The fact these actors and actresses never looked into the details of the case (they couldn’t have and come to their conclusion with such certainty) did not stop them from speaking out publicly with dogged conviction. Some said it was now their policy to always believe the woman. I would hope most thinking people reject such simple-mindedness.”
However, in the book, Allen also points out the people who have spoken out in his defense, including Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson, Diane Keaton, Javier Bardem and Joy Behar.
“More people should have said, I really don’t know all the facts so I have to withhold my judgment. God forbid anyone should say, ‘This accusation has been thoroughly investigated and found to be untrue,’” the famed director writes, adding of the people who defended him, “But thanks to all, because it was very nice of them to speak out, and I assure them it’s not something they will ever be embarrassed having done.”
In the memoir, which was released by Arcade Publishing on Monday after it was dropped by Hachette Book Group, Allen details his his relationship with wife Soon-Yi Previn and makes new claims against ex Mia Farrow.
Source: Read Full Article