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“I’d work with him again if he wanted me,” the 82-year-old actor, who has appeared in three of Allen’s films, recently toldThe Hollywood Reporter, ahead of receiving theLifetime Achievement Awardat the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday
“I don’t know all the facts, I don’t know if he’s guilty or innocent. But you can be uncertain — that’s what I go on,” Alda continued, referencing theaccusations of sexual abusefrom Allen’s daughter Dylan, one of his three children with exMia Farrow.
“I just don’t have enough information to convince me I shouldn’t work with him,” the actor added. “And he’s an enormously talented guy.”
Alda and Allen worked together on 1989’sCrimes and Misdemeanors, 1993’sManhattan Murder Mysteryand the musical comedyEveryone Says I Love You, which was released in 1996.
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According toVariety, last yearJavier Bardem— who appeared in the 2008 filmVicky, Christina, Barcelona— praised Allen during a masterclass at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France, telling students that Allen is “a genius” and he “would work with him tomorrow.”
The Oscar winner, 49, then emphasized that Allen hasn’t been convicted of a crime. “Today, 11 years later, it is the same accusation,” he asserted. “Public accusations are very dangerous. If some day there is a trial and it’s proven to be true, I would change my opinion, but at this moment, nothing has changed.”
source: people.com
