“I’m not condoning any behavior,” she said. “That movie probably couldn’t come out today. 100 percent.” Hemingway said she hasn’t seen “Allen v. Farrow,” the four-episode documentary that aired earlier this year that offered a re-examination of the sexual abuse allegations against Woody Allen by her adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, stemming from 1992.
“[Woody Allen] wasn’t disrespectful of me or unpleasant. He was great. I loved him,” she said, adding “I don’t know them,” referring to the Farrow family. “I don’t know Mia, I don’t know Dylan, I don’t know Ronan. It’s not my story to tell. I don’t make any judgment. I don’t know it. I know that my experience was wonderful.” Of “Manhattan,” she added, “Was he making a movie about sleeping with a 17-year-old girl? Yes he was. That’s what it was about and I knew that.” She said, “In many ways we’ve developed, we’ve opened up, we’re okay with things, and we’re going, ‘Wait we’ve got to put a stop to it when it’s inappropriate, when it’s wrong,’ and when it’s wrong it’s wrong. I don’t know the story and I don’t know them.” Hemingway said that the subject of the documentary is a bit “touchy” for her considering her own experience with Woody Allen. “Me saying that is not me going on a bandstand defending, but the integrity of his work to me still stays intact,” Hemingway said. “I’m not going down that road with him. Maybe that’s cowardly of me.” While Hemingway has acknowledged that Woody Allen did proposition her (as in her memoir “Out Came the Sun” and a 2020 Daily Beast interview), she insists it wasn’t a traumatic experience. “Woody Allen was wonderful to me. Did he like me? Yeah, he liked me. I didn’t have a relationship with him though. He respected that I didn’t want to have that. I was too young,” she told the Daily Beast last year. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
