Greta Gerwig Regrets Working with Woody Allen

Lady Bird writer/director Greta Gerwig has a meteoric Hollywood career now, but she was just getting started back in 2012. That's when she worked with director Woody Allen in To Rome with Love. Now, since Allen has been accused of sexual abuse by his adoptive daughter, Gerwig says she wishes she hadn't worked with him. She is, at least, however, speaking up about the situation.

Via Page Six.

Days after side-stepping questions about her work with Woody Allen, Greta Gerwig finally addressed the topic in an op-ed for the New York Times.

“I would like to speak specifically to the Woody Allen question, which I have been asked about a couple of times recently, as I worked for him on a film that came out in 2012,” Gerwig, 34, said of her role in “To Rome With Love.”

“It is something that I take very seriously and have been thinking deeply about, and it has taken me time to gather my thoughts and say what I mean to say,” she noted. “I can only speak for myself and what I’ve come to is this: If I had known then what I know now, I would not have acted in the film. I have not worked for him again, and I will not work for him again.”

She added, “Dylan Farrow’s two different pieces made me realize that I increased another woman’s pain, and I was heartbroken by that realization. I grew up on his movies, and they have informed me as an artist, and I cannot change that fact now, but I can make different decisions moving forward.”

In a 2014 New York Times op-ed, Farrow, 32, accused her adoptive father, Allen, of sexually abusing her as a child. She wrote a follow-up in December for the Los Angeles Times calling out stars who worked with Allen, including Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Blake Lively and Gerwig, and has since also chided “Wonder Wheel” star Justin Timberlake for his silence on the Allen accusations.

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