Actor Willem Dafoe says he is ‘not right’ for Woody Allen’s films
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Actor Willem Dafoe has said he has never worked with controversial director Woody Allen because he is “not right” for the director’s films. The Nosferatu star said he had never been asked to be in one of Allen’s projects because he was not the type of person who features in them.
Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, he explained: “I’m not a New York type and he really deals in types a little bit. I’m not like a typical, Jewish New Yorker, and I’m not a blue blood, uptown guy and he deals a lot in those things. “Sometimes you can admire someone or you can admire a filmmaker or a film and you’re just not part of their language, you’re not part of their world and you’ve just got to let it go, you know?”.
Dafoe went on to say he was not sure whether he would want to star in one of the 89-year-old’s films. The 69-year-old said: “I’m aware of that because so many friends and so many people have been in Woody Allen films. “And of course, he’s had a long career and his work has changed a lot over the career. And as you know, now he’s kind of somewhat cancelled because of certain personal things.
“So it’s a whole subject, but before the last 10 years, I sometimes I thought, wow, he’s never talked to me about anything, but then I sit myself down and say, you know what, I’m probably not right for anything that he’s doing.”. It has been alleged that Allen sexually assaulted his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, which the director vehemently denies.
