Actor Timothée Chalamet will be donating the money he made from Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York to charity.
In a lengthy Instagram post, the Call Me By Your Name star revealed he’ll be distributing the money to New York’s LGBT Community Centre, Time’s Up and RAINN, a sexual abuse charity.
The actor, nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor, claims he doesn’t want to “profit” from working with the likes of Allen.
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Dylan Farrow, Allen’s adopted daughter, has accused the director of sexually assaulting her as a child.
“This year has changed the way I see and feel about so many things,” writes Chalamet.
“It has been a thrilling and, at times, enlightening education.
I have, to this point, chosen projects from the perspective of a young actor trying to walk in the footsteps of more seasoned actors I admire.
But I am learning that a good role isn’t the only criteria for accepting a job.
That has become much clearer to me in the past few months, having witnessed the birth of a powerful movement intent on ending injustice, inequality and above all, silence.”
He then discusses his role in Woody Allen’s film:
“I have been asked in a few recent interviews about my decision to work on a film with Woody Allen last summer.
I’m not able to answer the question directly because of contractual obligations.
But what I can say is this: I don’t want to profit from my work on the film, and to that end, I am going to donate my entire salary to three charities: TIME’S UP, The LGBT Center in New York, and RAINN.
I want to be worthy of standing shoulder to shoulder with the brave artists who are fighting for all people to be treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.”
Chalamet says he’s taking a cue from co-star Rebecca Hall, who also donated her entire fee to Time’s Up.
Her Instagram post reads:
“The day after the Weinstein accusation broke in full force I was shooting a day of work on Woody Allen’s latest movie in New York.
I couldn’t have imagined somewhere stranger to be that day. When asked to do so, some seven months ago, I quickly said yes.
He gave me one of my first significant roles in film for which I have always been grateful, it was one day in my hometown – easy.
I have, however subsequently realized there is nothing easy about any of this. In the weeks following I have thought very deeply about this decision, and remain conflicted and saddened.
After reading and re-reading Dylan Farrow’s statements of a few days ago and going back and reading the older ones – I see, not only how complicated this matter is, but that my actions have made another woman feel silenced and dismissed.
That is not something that sits easily with me in the current or indeed any moment, and I am profoundly sorry. I regret this decision and wouldn’t make the same one today.
It’s a small gesture and not one intended as close to compensation but I’ve donated my wage to @timesup.
I’ve also signed up, will continue to donate, and look forward to working with and being part of this positive movement towards change not just in Hollywood but hopefully everywhere. #timesup”.
h/t: Pink News
whatsaywhat
Marry me Timmy
AlexEf
Get in the queue!
OzJosh
This Woody Allen backlash is revolting on so many levels. I’ll forgive little Timmy because he’s very young, naive and is possibly feeling the pressure from more powerful peers. But the protests by older actors – Mira Sorvino, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, Rebecca Hall – really are a bit much. First of all, they were all old enough and informed enough not to have taken their roles in Allen movies when they were offered, if that’s how they really felt. So all the breast beating after the event (long after the event in several cases) looks awfully like opportunistic attempts to jump on the latest bandwagon. And what does this really cost them? Chalamet is at least saying he’s going to donate his salary to charity, but is Mira Sorvino going to give back the Oscar she won from Mighty Aphrodite and henceforth cease to use “Oscar winner” in all her PR? I doubt it. That award is as much Woody Allen’s (he wrote AND directed) as it is hers. More to the point, as some actors are at least expressing concern about trial by media, these actors are all confidently leaping to condemn Allen, about whom the evidence is murky, to say the least. He has never been charged, much less convicted of any kind of crime related to child abuse or harassment. Several separate and exhaustive investigations have resulted in no charges. And if you actually bother to read all that’s been written about the Mia/Woody case (and there’s a lot) there is strong evidence to suggest that Mia spitefully fabricated the allegations of child abuse out of either revenge or just sheer hysteria when Allen left her for her adopted daughter. I’d be the first to say I find Woody Allen’s obsession with older man/younger women relationships in his films off-putting. But he’s not alone there. And you’re welcome to disapprove of his running off with his girlfriend’s adopted daughter – though that’s not a crime either. But condemning a man who has never been proven to have committed any serious abuse is just wrong – unless that old “innocent until proven guilty” principle means nothing to you.
Bradsman
Well said!
Brian
Actors have been lining up to work with Woody for what, 2 decades since all his dirty laundry came out? And now, suddenly there is a mass crisis of faith about him? Bitches, please. Everything we have heard about him is still worse than about 98% of what everyone has been outraged about over the past 3 months, and nobody in Hollywood gave a crap until it became trendy to do so.
mikenewby
nobody cares anymore about the facts in this political climate. the second someone is accused regarless if it is true or not the SJW trolls come out on twitter and flip out and if you dont indulge them youre a bigot. im a gay man in canada and im getting real sick of this climate out here.
Kangol
I’ll post this in case no one else has seen it, but Woody Allen clearly is a creep. A young writer, Richard Morgan, went through Allen’s notebooks deposited in Princeton’s Firestone Library, and all throughout, in drafts of stories, screenplays, etc., he is constantly slobbering over teenage girls.
OK, it’s his right. And he is a great filmmaker. But he’s also a creep. And I believe his daughter Dylan, toward whom Allen had allegedly behaved inappropriately before, but even if she had not come forward, he took sexually explicit photos of and started a relationship with his step-daughter. Just creepy!
Knight
Aw, what a class act. “I’ don’t like associating with known pedophiles, but I sure do want that part. So, I’ll publicly kvetch and do a nice gesture. That oughta put me back in good graces. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll just come out of the closet next summer (it’s already on the calendar)”.
Hollywood is so predictable these days. It never ceased to amaze me that Woody Allen was never prosecuted and got to play his J-card over and over, still getting work and making movies.
karljordinson
It’s weird woody Allen has had this black mark on him for years hence Mia farrow dropping his sick ass! But it’s only now actors are giving there salaries to charities!
a lot has won Oscars from their work in his movies! Will they give them back or give their salaries to charity!
jd.cali
OzJosh
You are forgetting to mention that that creepy old man cheated on Mia Farrow with her teenage adoptive daughter. She was 17…. Then left with the teenager and later married her.
Woody Allen is a notorious creepX10.
Kangol
And Mia Farrow found out about the affair when she found nude photos that creep-@ss Woody Allen had taken of Soon-Yi!
Gates
If we got rid of all the horney old men, racists, and creeps in Hollywood, there wouldn’t be enough people left to make even one movie.
Knight
Wrong. SO wrong. It’s just that the “tribe” and their abusive, racist enablers shuts out anyone who tries to have a conscience or hold an alternative view.
crowebobby
I’m so proud to live in a country where so many non-actors would have turned down roles in Woody Allen films when they were still young and barely known, i.e., pre-“Call Me By Your Name” hoopla. The only reason George Clooney is better known than I am is because I wouldn’t put out.