In a recent chat with Alec Baldwin, Woody Allen considered retiring, claiming he would make ‘at least one more movie’.
Woody Allen is considered retirement, or so he told Alec Baldwin in a recent chat. Speaking to Baldwin during an Instagram live chat, Allen said that making movies just wasn’t as fun for him anymore.
He still, however, claimed he would give it one last shot.
“I’ll probably make at least one more movie. A lot of the thrill is gone.” he said, adding that the rise of streaming also had a role to play in this change.
“When I used to do a film it’d go into a movie house all across the country. Now you do a movie and you get a couple weeks in a movie house. Maybe six weeks or four weeks and then it goes right to streaming or paper view…It’s not the same…It’s not as enjoyable to me.” Allen claimed.
“I don’t get the same fun [as] doing a movie and putting it in a theater. It was a nice feeling to know that 500 people were seeing it once… I don’t know how I feel about making movies. I’m going to make another one and I’ll see how it feels.” Allen added.
The director has significantly cut down on his number of public appearances in recent years, largely in part due to the sexual abuse allegations against him. Allen’s former partner, Mia Farrow, has maintained for years that he sexually abused their daughter, Dylan. He has continued to deny all allegations.
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“It’s so preposterous, and yet the smear has remained and they still prefer to cling to if not the notion that I molested Dylan, then the possibility that I molested her,” Allen told CBS News in an interview.
“Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could be misconstrued as that… there was no logic to it on the face of it.” he’d said, before adding: “I never lived with Mia, I never slept at Mia’s house in all of the years I went out with her. We had a relationship, but it was never going to be a marital relationship.”
You can read more about this topic over at the Film & TV Observer.
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