By PTI
LOS ANGELES:Â Hollywood star Drew Barrymore has expressed remorse over working with disgraced filmmaker Woody Allen, saying she was “gaslit into not looking at a narrative” past what she was instructed.
The 46-year-old actor opened up on “The Drew Barrymore Show”, which she hosts, as she sat for an interview with author and Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow.
The two mentioned “Allen v Farrow”, the HBO documentary that appears into the story behind the sexual abuse allegations made by Dylan Farrow towards the director when she was a toddler.
The accusations, which Allen has repeatedly denied, caught steam as soon as once more within the wake of the #MeToo rebellion.
The embattled director has denounced the documentary as nicely.
“I want to say, first out of the gate…that I would like to explain myself,” mentioned Barrymore, who had labored with Allen on the 1996 musical comedy “Everyone Says I Love You”, just a few years after the controversy died down.
“This is not about me, but I wanted to have this type of candor. I worked with Woody Allen…and there was no higher career calling card than to work with Woody Allen,” the Golden Globe winner mentioned.
“Everyone Says I Love You” additionally starred Allen, Goldie Hawn, Natasha Lyonne, Julia Roberts, Edward Norton, Alan Alda and Tim Roth and was nominated for greatest movement image – musical or comedy on the Golden Globes.
“Then I had children. And it changed me because I realized that I was one of the people who was basically gaslit into not looking at a narrative beyond what I was being told,” Barrymore continued.
Dylan Farrow mentioned Barrymore’s remarks had been “brave and generous”.
“It is just so meaningful because it’s easy for me to say, ‘Of course you shouldn’t work with him he’s a jerk, he’s a monster.’ But I just find it incredibly brave and incredibly generous that you would say to me that my story and what I went through was important enough to you to reconsider that,” the 35-year-old actor mentioned.
“Allen v Farrow” is a four-part documentary that hails from investigative filmmakers Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy.
It additionally options in-depth interviews with Dylan Farrow’s mother-actor Mia Farrow, her brother and investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, household buddy Carly Simon, prosecutor Frank Maco, kinfolk, investigators, specialists and different first-hand eyewitnesses a lot of them talking publicly concerning the occasions for the primary time.
A consultant for Allen didn’t instantly reply to People journal’s request for remark.
