Woody Allen Calls Cancel Culture ‘Dumb’: ‘If an Actor’ Won’t Work With Him, They’re ‘Really Making a Mistake’

Director Woody Allen gave a rare, in-depth interview to the Wall Street Journal to promote his first-ever novel, “What’s With Baum,” where he discussed his own Hollywood shunning over the allegations he sexually abused his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.

Allen has repeatedly denied the allegations that he molested Dylan when she was 7 years old in her mother Mia Farrow’s Connecticut home. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, Dylan Farrow said, “I am sick and tired of the misogynistic and unscientific narrative that I was coached or brainwashed. Far from it, this is a truth I reported as a child and have continued to recount consistently since. I am a 40-year-old woman. I was sexually assaulted by Woody Allen.”

The director, whom many in Hollywood have refused to work with after the allegations, shared his own thoughts on cancel culture: “It’s just dumb.”

“If an actor says,…