Is there still time? Has Woody Allen's movie with Timothee Chalamet movie been released? Could Allen re-edit it, use Chalamet's worst takes to make him look bad? Remember how, at the beginning of the sound era, one of the studios ended an actor's career by making his voice sound funny?
These actors appear in Allen's movies for next to nothing, paid the union minimum. They only do it if they don't have a REAL job, and they do it because actors keep winning Oscars for Allen's movies. But they turned on him and announced that they're donating the tiny amount they got paid to the #metoo movement, like it's a big sacrifice and like it's somehow hurting Allen. They can give away their Oscars if they want to give away something.
Perhaps ironically, Chalamet hit it big with his pro-teenager-sleeping-with-a-grown-up movie Call Me By Your Name.
Perhaps ironically, Chalamet hit it big with his pro-teenager-sleeping-with-a-grown-up movie Call Me By Your Name.
I said before that Allen should start using lesser-known actors, people who actually need the money. He makes so many movies he would quickly have a veritable army of grateful actors to defend him. He could do what Roger Corman used to do to cast movies. He would go through lists of Screen Actors Guild members and look for names he recognized who hadn't worked in a while.
I don't know how I should feel about Allen having three-way sex forty years ago or dating a high school girl. Those days are long gone. But he must have had some idea that if word got out that it might affect his career.
On the other hand, Jerry Seinfeld started dating his wife when she was seventeen and he's not a pariah.
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