LOS ANGELES - Actor Alec Baldwin on Wednesday expressed support for film maker Woody Allen as a growing number of entertainment industry stars seek to distance themselves from the "Annie Hall" director as part of the Time's Up campaign against sexual misconduct.
Baldwin, who appeared in three of Allen's films, said on Twitter that the renunciation of the director and his work was "unfair and sad to me."
Baldwin said working with Allen was "one of the privileges of my career."
Allen has repeatedly denied decades-old accusations that he molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was seven years old in the early 1990s.
But sentiment has turned against him during the sexual misconduct scandal sweeping Hollywood that has led to dozens of successful men being forced to resign or being dropped from projects.
"I am credible, and I am telling the truth, and I think it’s important that people realize that one victim, one accuser, matters. And that they are enough to change things," Farrow said in an advance excerpt from a television interview due to be broadcast on the CBS show "This Morning" on Thursday.
Timothee Chalamet, 22, the star of romance "Call me By Your Name," this week became the latest actor to announce he will donate the salary he earned from an Allen movie to "Time's Up" and other causes for sexual abuse victims.
He followed Rebecca Hall, Ellen Page and Mira Sorvino who have made donations or issued regrets about working with Allen in recent weeks. Last week "Lady Bird" director Greta Gerwig, who acted in the 2012 film "To Rome with Love," said she would not work with Allen again. - Reuters