Several actors have expressed their regrets over working with the likes of Woody Allen and Roman Polanski (though not all) in the wake of #MeToo, and now adding their name to the “I really shouldn’t have done that” is Kate Winslet.
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In a profile piece for Vanity Fair, Kate Winslet is expressing her deep regret over working with Woody Allen on Wonder Wheel and Roman Polanski on Carnage, saying how it’s “disgraceful” how Hollywood have put them on a pedestal for so long before taking responsibility for how she worked with the two instead of saying something about the allegations and convictions leveled at them, especially during #MeToo.
“It’s like, what the fuck was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski? It’s unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were. It’s fucking disgraceful.
“And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can’t turn back the clock. I’m grappling with those regrets but what do we have if we aren’t able to just be fucking truthful about all of it?”
Kate Winslet’s journey to get to this point where she’s publicly expressing regret over collaborating with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski has taken some wild twists and turns over the years.
In an interview she gave to The New York Times in 2017, Kate sorta defended her decision to work with Allen, saying how as an actor she had to “step away and say, ‘I don’t know anything, really,’ and whether any of it is true or false. Having thought it all through, you put it to one side and just work with the person.” She then said how Allen “is an incredible director” before expressing the same sentiment towards Polanski, saying how she “had an extraordinary working experience with both of these men, and that’s the truth.”
Kate’s view on the issue than changed in 2018 when she publicly expressed her “bitter regrets” about working with certain men in Hollywood before alluding to Allen. She then stated how “by not saying anything, I might be adding to the anguish of many courageous women and men” and emphasised how “nobody should be exempt from having a right to speak in support of vulnerable people. There are those who can speak so powerfully for those who are not able to do so themselves, and let us please not make this about which people express public regret.”
Unsurprisingly, Woody Allen and Roman Polanski have yet to issue a response to Kate Winslet’s statement, and we probably shouldn’t expect anything from the two since Kate isn’t up for an Oscar for the films she worked on with the pair.
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