Kate Winslet, who has worked with both Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, says Hollywood's high regard of the directors is 'f---ing disgraceful'
- Kate Winslet has said she "regrets" working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski and thinks Hollywood's high regard for the directors is "f---ing disgraceful."
- "What the f--- was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski?" Winslet said during a candid interview with Vanity Fair. "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 f---ing disgraceful."
- Winslet, 44, starred alongside Justin Timberlake in Allen's 2017 period drama, "Wonder Wheel," and was part of Polanski's large ensemble in the 2011 black comedy "Carnage."
Kate Winslet has said she "regrets" working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski and thinks Hollywood's high regard for the directors is "f---ing disgraceful."
"What the f--- was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski?" Winslet said during a candid interview with Vanity Fair. "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 f---ing disgraceful."
She added: "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 f---ing truthful about all of it?"
Winslet, 44, starred alongside Justin Timberlake in Allen's 2017 period drama, "Wonder Wheel," and was part of Polanski's large ensemble in the 2011 black comedy "Carnage."
In 1992, it was revealed that Allen, then 57, was having an affair with his adoptive daughter Soon-Yi Previn, then 21. After the affair was made public, his then wife, the actor Mia Farrow — who worked on 1968's "Rosemary's Baby" with Polanski — divorced and publicly denounced the "Annie Hall" director and accused him of sexually abusing their other adoptive daughter Dylan, then 7 years old.
Allen was investigated by authorities but was never charged with any crimes. He has consistently maintained his innocence.
Meanwhile, Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor after having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1978 but fled the US before he could be prosecuted. Several other women have since accused him of sexual misconduct, and he has denied the allegations.
Despite all of this, Polanski won the Oscar best director in 2003 for his World War II epic "The Pianist" and has continued to freely produce films in Europe that premiere at major film festivals. Last year he won best director at the Cesar Awards, France's top film awards, for his movie "An Officer and a Spy."
Following the explosion of the #MeToo movement in 2018, Polanski, 87, was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Winslet is now set to star alongside Saoirse Ronan in "Ammonite," the British writer-director Francis Lee's follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut, "God's Own Country."
The film, set in the 1800s on the southern coast of England, follows the life of the paleontologist Mary Anning, played by Winslet, who develops an intense romantic relationship with a much-younger married woman, played by Ronan.
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