Mira Sorvino regrets working with Woody Allen
Actor Mira Sorvino has penned an open letter to Dylan Farrow and apologised for working in Woody Allen’s 1995 comedy, Mighty Aphrodite.
Sorvino won an Oscar for her role as a prostitute in the film. But she expressed regret for being part of the film and said she’d never work with the director again.
“I confess that at the time I worked for Woody Allen, I was a naive young actress. I swallowed the media’s portrayal of your abuse allegations against your father as an outgrowth of a twisted custody battle between Mia Farrow and him, and did not look further into the situation, for which I am terribly sorry. For this I also owe an apology to Mia,” Sorvino wrote in an essay for HuffPost.
Last month, in an op-ed published in a newspaper, Farrow had called out stars such as Kate Winslet, Blake Lively, and Greta Gerwig for working with Allen amid her accusations that the 82-yearold filmmaker molested her as a child in 1992. That news had first come out in 1993.
Sorvino said that her relationship with Allen on the sets of Mighty Aphrodite was “friendly, though not close, but in no way did he ever overstep his bounds with me”.
She wrote: “I never personally experienced what has now been described as inappropriate behaviour toward young girls. But this does not excuse my turning a blind eye to your story simply because I wanted desperately for it not to be so.”
Sorvino was one of the first women to accuse Weinstein of sexual harassment. She said that the producer blacklisted her after she rejected his advances. Her essay said, “This kind of abuse cannot be allowed to continue.” PTI