People and royalty
This is one of the anecdotes distilled in the director’s new autobiography.
It would inevitably cause a lot of ink to flow. After provoking employee mutiny from Hachette, About Nothing, Woody Allen’s biography, was finally released on Arcade this Monday, March 23. If the 84-year-old director takes the opportunity to make dubious revelations – he claims to have married his adopted daughter Soon-Yi Prévin for some ” strictly financial reasons ” -, he also slipped a small tackle to a young actor to whom everything smiles: Timothée Chalamet.
“He swore to my sister that he had to do it”
For Woody Allen, the 24-year-old Franco-American slipped into the eternal tweed and velvet suit in A rainy day in New York, comedy released in 2019. At that time, Chalamet lived above all a key moment in his young career since he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the excellent Call Me By Your Name. An event which, according to the director, would have pushed him to ” denounce To put all his chances on his side. ” He swore to my sister that he had to do it. (…) He and his agent believed that he had a better chance of winning if he reported me. So he did it “, he wrote in his memoirs.
After the advent of the #MeToo movement, the young actor had effectively distanced himself, even donating his entire cachet to various associations, including Time’s Up. ” I want to be able to stand by the brave artists who are fighting for everyone to be treated with the respect and dignity they deserve “, he explained in a long Instagram post. Woody Allen concedes that he ” don’t regret working with him “, but that he does not ” not give back his money “.
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