Scarlett Johansson recently made her directorial debut with the film emotional drama “Eleanor The Great,” and is now shockingly doubling down on her defence of the disgraced filmmaker Woody Allen, despite child molestation allegations that go back to 1992. Of course, Johansson’s relationship with Allen goes back to working with the director on a bunch of his modern features, such as “Scoop,” “Match Point,” and “Vicky Christina Barcelona.” But since Allen’s bigger fallout, which has since made him sort of a Hollywood pariah, Johansson stopped working with him, but it sounds like she isn’t giving up on defending the director anytime soon.
“You never know what the domino effect is, exactly,” the actress turned director said of whether she’s lost work for her defence of Allen. “But my mom always encouraged me to be myself, [to see] that it’s important to have integrity, and stand up for what you believe in. At the same time, I think it’s also important to know when it’s not your turn. I don’t mean that you should silence yourself. I mean, sometimes it’s just not your time. And that’s something I’ve understood more as I’ve matured,” Johansson told The Daily Telegraph.
For some greater context, Allen has been accused by multiple family members of sexually assaulting/molesting his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was just a child. An allegation that goes back to Allen’s bitter public divorce with actress/activist ex-wife Mia Farrow, which was widely covered by the media in the early 1990s (the subject of the 2021 HBO documentary “Allen v. Farrow“).
That allegation resurfaced during the #MeToo era as Allen’s son Ronan Farrow (a renowned investigative journalist in his own right) exposed various allegations of sexual assaults/misconduct throughout the world of Hollywood, and Allen would start to see actual professional consequences as studios/actors (some donating their salaries to charity as to avoid being seen as profiting from their invovlement) would start avoiding working with the director. These allegations happened to occur around the time Allen started a sexual relationship with his adopted step-daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, whom he eventually married in 1997, and that also became a controversy on its own (some may understandably conflate the two controversies, but they are two different things).
Having blind spots or sticking her foot in her mouth isn’t exactly a new thing for Johansson, as she didn’t really handle the whitewashing controversy of her cyberpunk adaptation “Ghost In The Shell” too well in the past (Johansson jokingly being cast in various Asian/POC roles eventually became a shortlived internet meme), but sticking with Allen after all that has come out concerning Dylan doesn’t feel like a terribly bright move or one that her publicist is likely advising her on.
We’ve seen plenty of attempts to rehabilitate the careers of directors
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