Sean Penn has expressed that he’s open to working with Woody Allen regardless of the kid intercourse abuse allegations towards the filmmaker.
In a brand new interview, Penn, who obtained an Oscar nomination for his work on Allen’s Candy and Lowdown (1999), mentioned he was right down to work with the director once more.
“I really like that film. I’d work with him in a heartbeat if it was the fitting factor,” Penn mentioned on The Louis Theroux Podcast.
Allen was accused of sexual abuse by his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow. Of the allegations in regards to the Annie Corridor director, Penn mentioned, “I don’t know anybody properly sufficient to say 100% this didn’t occur or that didn’t occur or one thing. God forbid you’re fallacious and there’s a sufferer concerned, proper? I haven’t learn every part, however the tales are largely instructed by individuals who I’d not belief with a dime. It appears so closely weighted in that means.”
Penn defended Allen when the podcast host famous that the allegations towards the director had been from his adopted youngsters.
“I’m not conscious of any medical psychologist or psychiatrist or anybody I ever heard discuss in regards to the topic of pedophilia that in 80 years of life it solely occurs as soon as. I’m not conscious of that,” Penn mentioned.
He added, “When folks attempt to affiliate his a lot youthful girlfriends, proper or fallacious shouldn’t be the dialog right here. Publish-puberty consensual stuff is a unique dialog.”
Penn additionally mentioned, “I simply suppose that no matter is the worst of individuals’s suspicions about him, simply verify them with the details separate from the [#MeToo] motion and all those that benefited from that. Let’s simply take a second is all I’m saying. I see he isn’t confirmed responsible, so I take him as harmless. I’d work with him in a heartbeat.”
