Rebecca Hall revisited her past and is so disappointed on herself.
Hall, in 2018, was offered a small role in Woody Allen’s film A Rainy Day in New York, which also starred Timothée Chalamet, Jude Law and Elle Fanning.
The actress was hit with realization after Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow, accused him of sexually abusing her as a child and women came forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Hall admitted she at the time regretted her decision to star in the film.
“I see, not only how complicated this matter is, but that my actions have made another woman feel silenced and dismissed,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “I regret this decision and wouldn’t make the same one today.”
During a conversation with The Guardian, the actress was inquired about her stance on these comments now.
“I struggle with this one. It’s very unlike me to make a public statement about anything. I make the stuff, that’s how I am political. I don’t think of myself as an ‘actor-vist’, I’m not that person. And, I kind of regret making that statement, because I don’t think it’s the responsibility of his actors to speak to that situation,” Hall said.
She recalled filming and being “outside, shooting a street scene with Jude Law where, literally, my dialogue was, ‘You’ve got to stop sleeping with these fucking 15-year-olds.’ And that day, the Weinstein scandal breaks. There’s a bank of journalists and paparazzi right there, because Weinstein’s a producer on it, and they’re all listening to me say this.”
What baffled the Hall was that all her interviews centered on Allen and Weinstein, causing her distress.
“Like, in this moment, it’s the most important thing to believe the women. Yes, of course, there’s going to be complications and nuances in these stories, but we’re redressing a balance here. So I felt like I wanted to do something definitive,” she said.
Hall donated her salary to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund. “But it just became, ‘another person denounces Woody Allen and regrets working with him’, which is not what I said actually. I don’t regret working with him. He gave me a great job opportunity and he was kind to me,” Hall said.
She added, “I don’t talk to him any more, but I don’t think that we should be the ones who are doing judge and jury on this.”
