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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Woody Allen in Venice: #MeToo has been good for women, but cancel culture can be ‘silly’

Woody Allen arrives in Venice.
‘There was nothing to it. The fact that it lingers on always makes me think that maybe people like the idea that it lingers on’ … Woody Allen in Venice. Photograph: Ettore Ferrari/EPA

Woody Allen has voiced his support for the #MeToo movement while promoting his new film, adding that he sometimes finds cancel culture “silly”.

The director’s career has lately been mired by a recent refocusing in social media on an allegation made against him in 1992, when his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, said he had sexually assaulted her in an attic at the time of the custody battle between Allen and Dylan’s adoptive mother, Mia Farrow.

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