Oscar-winning actressKate Winsletsays she now regrets working with the controversial filmmakersWoody AllenandRoman Polanski.
“It’s like, what the f was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski?”
It’s fing disgraceful."
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Winslet didn’t let herself off the hook for her past choices.
“I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both,” she said.
“I can’t turn back the clock.
Winslet appeared in Polanski’s 2011 filmCarnage,an adaptation of the hit Broadway playGod of Carnage.
In 1993, he was accused of abusing his adopted daughterDylan Farrow.
Allen has longdenied the allegations.
Allegations against Polanski stretch back further.
In March 1977, he was arrested and charged with raping then-13-year-old Samantha Geimer.
He pleaded guilty to only one of the charges: unlawful sexual intercourse.
But Polanski fled to Europe in 1978 and has not returned to the United States since.
Since 2010,four additional women have accusedPolanski of sexually assaulting them while they were minors.
He has denied all such charges.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencesvoted to expel himfrom its ranks in 2018.
Having thought it all through, you put it to one side and just work with the person.
Woody Allen is an incredible director.
So is Roman Polanski.
I had an extraordinary working experience with both of those men, and that’s the truth.”
Representatives for Winslet, Polanski, and Allen did not immediately respond to EW’s request for further comment.
