Even around the holidays, this A+/A list mostly movie actress who is in a superhero universe was still defending the child molesting director.

It is only as her release date for her standalone movie nears, that she has suddenly had a 180.

 

Scarlett Johansson

Woody Allen

Black Widow

Scarlett Johansson Continues to Support Woody Allen Despite Dylan Farrow’s Hate Campaign

Dylan Farrow, who has made a career of claiming she was raped by Woody Allen, is now angry at actress Scarlett Johansson.

The Avengers actress said during an interview in The Hollywood Reporter that she believes the director when he denies having molested his adopted daughter Farrow when she was 7 years old.

“I love Woody,” Johannson said. “I believe him, and I would work with him anytime

Farrow “took to social media and publicly aired her disappointment with the Marvel star. She framed her disgust by referencing the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements — which Johansson has publicly supported in recent years,” the New York Daily News has reported.

Farrow tweeted, “Because if we’ve learned anything from the past two years it’s that you definitely should believe male predators who “maintain their innocence” without question. Scarlett has a long way to go in understanding the issue she claims to champion.”

“In 2014, Farrow, whose mother is actress Mia Farrow, wrote an open letter in The New York Times, detailing for the first time in public what she allegedly went through,” the Daily News reported. “I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house,” she wrote. “He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me. He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we’d go to Paris and I’d be a star in his movies.”- Source

Scarlett Johansson admits she’s lacked ‘self-awareness’ when speaking out – March 26, 2021

In a new interview, Scarlett Johansson acknowledges she has courted controversy, mostly by the impolitic way she has defended her choices to star in movies that were criticized for their depictions of people who have long been marginalized by Hollywood.

“Yeah, I’ve made a career out of (controversy),” the “Black Widow” star said an interview with the U.K. publication The Gentlewoman. Johansson, 36, also remains one of the few remaining stars to continue to support Woody Allen.

While Johansson said she’s going to express her opinions, “because that’s who I am,” she also admitted she hasn’t always expressed herself in the best way possible.

“I mean, everyone has a hard time admitting when they’re wrong about stuff, and for all of that to come out publicly, it can be embarrassing,” Johansson told The Gentlewoman. “To have the experience of, ‘Wow, I was really off mark there, or I wasn’t looking at the big picture, or I was inconsiderate.’ I’m also a person.”

Johansson embarrassed herself when she became one of the more prominent examples of Hollywood’s long history of whitewashing with her leading role in “Ghost in the Shell.” In the 2017 action film, based on a Japanese manga, she played a Major, a machinate body housing the brain of a dead Japanese woman. Fans of the original manga and advocates for Asian actors in Hollywood argued that a Japanese actress should have been cast in the role. – Source

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