Diane Keaton has no regrets about working with Woody Allen (Picture: Getty)
Diane Keaton has defended her work with controversial filmmaker Woody Allen.
The actress, 77, has worked with Allen, 87, numerous times throughout her career.
She starred alongside him in a number of movies, in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, including Play it Again, Sam (1972), Sleeper (1973), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Radio Days (1987), and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).
However, over recent years, stars have faced backlash for working with Allen due to allegations made against him.
Allen was accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was a child.
Farrow has claimed that Allen abused her in August 1992 when she was just seven years of age, which he has repeatedly denied.
Keaton and Allen have starred together in several films, pictured here in Sleeper in 1973 (Picture: Getty)
Keaton has defended Allen in the past against allegations of sexual abuse (Picture: Getty)
When a documentary was made about the sexual abuse claims, the actor slammed it as a ‘hatchet job’ and a ‘shoddy hit piece.’
While the allegations continue to plague Allen and have deterred stars from working with him, Keaton has no regrets.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she was initially asked: ‘Looking back over your own career, is there any one performance that still sticks with you?’
She replied: ‘The first Woody Allen movie (Play It Again, Sam). That’s it. I was in it, I had lines. I was just totally surprised by that.’
The interviewer proceeded to ask: ‘Do you feel the allegations levelled against Woody Allen or his other controversies overshadow the work you did together?’
Pictured here for Play It Again, Sam (1972), Keaton said this film in particular has stuck with her (Picture: Getty)
‘No, not at all. No,’ she insisted.
‘I’m proud. I’m proud beyond measure.’
Keaton went on to share that ‘a good part’ is what inspires her to keep working in Hollywood, as well as ‘a great piece of work.’
‘It doesn’t always work out well, but sometimes they’re fascinating,’ she said.
This isn’t the first time Keaton has spoken out to defend Allen.
‘I continue to believe him’, she said in response to the allegations against Allen in 2018 (Picture: Getty)
In 2018, she took to Twitter amid the molesting allegations to say she believes his defence.
Sharing a TV interview in which Allen dismissed the claims made against him, she wrote: ‘Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe him. It might be of interest to take a look at the 60 Minute interview from 1992 and see what you think.’
The allegations against Allen first came to light during a custody battle between the director and his former partner Mia Farrow following the breakdown of their relationship after his affair with Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn in 1991.
However, they resurfaced over recent years during discussions about misconduct in Hollywood, particularly involving disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein.
Many actors have expressed regret over working with Allen, who denies claims that he molested his adopted daughter (Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
Following the re-emergence of the allegations, many actors have expressed regret over working with Allen.
Rebecca Hall and Timothée Chalamet ended up donating their salaries from A Rainy Day in New York, to charity.
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Meanwhile, Colin Firth, who starred in Magic in the Moonlight (2013) said he would never appear in another Allen movie.
He has been defended by other co-stars, though, with the likes of Alec Baldwin interviewing Allen on Instagram Live last year, saying ahead of time that he had ‘zero interest’ in any backlash.
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Allen has been accused of molesting his adopted daughter, which he denies.