Winslet changes her tune about Allen

Maybe Kate Winslet is enjoying the benefit of hindsight, or she simply doesn’t have a movie with Woody Allen or Roman Polanski to promote, but the actress is no longer saying it was “extraordinary” to work with the legendary but controversial directors.

“It’s like, what the (expletive) was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski,” Winslet said in a new interview with Vanity Fair.

The Oscar winner, 44, was responding to a question about whether the #MeToo movement had any impact on how women are depicted in movies. Dropping more f-bombs, Winslet mentioned “Ammomite,” the new film she is currently promoting, before saying, “Life is (expletive) short and I’d like to do my best when it comes to setting a decent example to younger women. We’re handing them a pretty (expletive)-up world, so I’d like to do my bit in having some proper integrity.”

Winslet then addressed Allen, 84, and Polanski, 87, who have both faced allegations involving the sexual assault of minors. “It’s unbelievable to me now,” she said, “how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were.”

She added, “And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can’t turn back the clock.”

In 2017, when Allen cast her in “Wonder Wheel,” she spoke about the director in a much more favorable light while promoting the film. The New York Times asked her whether the allegations against him had given her “pause.” Allen’s adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, accused Allen of molesting her in the early 1990s when she was 7. Allen has vehemently denied her accusation over the years.

“Of course one thinks about it,” Winslet told the Times. “But at the same time, I didn’t know Woody and I don’t know anything about that family. As the actor in the film, you just have to step away and say, I don’t know anything, really, and whether any of it is true or false. Having thought it all through, you put it to one side and just work with the person.”

Polanski pleaded guilty in 1977 to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-yearold girl.

Winslet worked with the “Rosemary’s Baby” director on the 2011 film, “Carnage.”

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