My experience with Woody Allen was very odd: Marion Cotillard
Oscar-winning actor Marion Cotillard has spoken about her experience of working with Woody Allen on the sets of Midnight in Paris. Cotillard, who starred alongside Owen Wilson and Tom Hiddleston in the 2011 comedy, claims she wasn’t aware of Allen’s life off-camera at the time of the film.
The star, who won Best Actress for La Vie En Rose in 2008, was asked to give her thoughts on Allen after his daughter Dylan Farrow reiterated, in a televised interview , her claim that he sexually abused her.
“I’m very ignorant of what he did or didn’t do. I just see people suffer, and it’s terrible,” she says. “I have to say today, yeah, if he were to ask me again… I don’t think it would ever happen because the experience we had was odd. We had no connection on the set.”
“I didn’t know much about his personal life,” Cotillard said. “I knew that he had married one of his daughters which I thought, honestly, was weird, but I cannot judge something I don’t know.”
If Allen were to ask her again, the actor says she would do more research this time. “I’ve to say if he asked me to, today, I would question more,” she said.
Cotillard is the latest actor to talk about Allen after questions about the alleged abuse of his daughter have been brought up again. In an op-ed written last year, Dylan Farrow accused the industry of hypocrisy for welcoming the #MeToo movement yet refusing to expel her father.