Pride & prejudice

Woody Allen would like to be the ‘poster boy’ of the #MeToo movement, if anyone is interested Sadaf Ahsan

Although Woody Allen was accused by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow of molesting her in 1992 when she was seven years old, he recently claimed he should be made the face of the #MeToo movement — but not for the reason you might think.

#MeToo, which promotes sexual misconduct awareness, kicked off thanks to a mass outpouring of assault confessions from actresses accusing their directors and producers.

Allen is a natural fit with the crusade, he says, because he’s worked with hundreds of actresses and “not a single one — big ones, famous ones, ones starting out – have ever, ever suggested any kind of impropriety at all. I’ve always had a wonderful record with them.”

Based on that logic, he declared to Argentinian news show Periodismo Para Todos, “I should be the poster boy for the #MeToo movement.”

Although Allen has long denied Dylan’s claims of abuse, her brother Ronan Farrow and mother Mia Farrow have said they vehemently believe her. In fact, Ronan shared a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year for his New Yorker investigation into the Harvey Weinstein scandal, which kicked off the #MeToo movement.

But Moses Farrow, Allen and Mia’s adopted son, recently commented on the allegations as well, saying he believes Allen is being “condemned for a crime he did not commit.”

“Everyone wants justice to be done,” Allen added. “If there’s something like the #MeToo movement now, you root for them, you want them to bring to justice these terrible harassers, these people that do all these terrible things. And I think that’s a good thing. What bothers me is that I get linked in with them . ... People who have been accused by 20 women, 50 women, 100 women of abuse and abuse and abuse — and I, who was only accused by one woman in a child custody case, which was proven to be untrue, I get lumped in with these people.”

The case against Allen was investigated at the time and no charges were brought against the director, but prosecutors did note there was “probable cause” to do so and that his behaviour towards Dylan was “grossly inappropriate.”

Although no actresses in Hollywood have accused Allen of personal misconduct, many, including Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page, have since disavowed the director in light of Dylan’s claims, saying they will never work with him again in support of her story.

NOT A SINGLE ACTRESS HAS EVER, EVER SUGGESTED ANY KIND OF IMPROPRIETY AT ALL