Mia Farrow Opens Up About Actors Working With Woody Allen: ‘I Completely Understand’

Mia Farrow shared how she felt about other actors working with the disgraced director and her ex-partner Woody Allen, in a CBS News Sunday Morning interview . Patti LuPone joined her for the interview, where they discussed their two-person play, The Roommate , that premieres Sept. 12.

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In 1992, Mia Farrow and adopted daughter Dylan Farrow accused Allen of molesting Dylan beginning at age 7. Allen has denied the charges. The 2021 docuseries Allen v. Farrow , told from the mother and daughter’s perspective, chronicled the sexual abuse allegations and the aftermath of the custody battle on the Farrow family.

Farrow told CBS she was able to separate her experience as an actor working alongside Allen and the “trials and tribulations” she faced against Allen. “Oh yeah, yeah,” Farrow, who has worked on 13 films with Allen, said. “And I completely understand if an actor decides to work with him. I’m not one who’d say, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t.’”

In May 2021, Drew Barrymore was among those who said she wished she never worked on Allen’s 1996 movie Everyone Says I Love You , in an interview with Dylan Farrow on The Drew Barrymore Show . Barrymore filmed the 1996 movie a few years after Allen was accused and said there was still “no higher career calling card than to work with Woody Allen.”

Meanwhile earlier this year, Bill Maher defended Allen, calling Dylan Farrow’s sexual abuse allegations “very improbable,” in an interview with Katie Couric on his Club Random podcast. As the two discussed the challenges of separating art from the artist with regard to Allen’s 2023 film Coup de Chance , Maher said, “I don’t think he committed that crime” and called those that regret working with Allen, “a bunch of pussies.”

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In a clip from the CBS News Sunday Morning interview, Farrow also opened up about her marriage with Frank Sinatra, whom she married at 21. Their marriage lasted two short years, before a divorce in 1968.

“Like Patti [LuPone], he was Sicilian, but unlike Patti he had a temper but the essential person was so compassionate and shy and readily available more than anyone I’ve ever known,” Farrow said. “It ended up being a friendship that lasted until he died.”

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