Michael Caine: I won’t work with Woody Allen again

Michael Caine, who won an Oscar for his role in Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters,” has ruled out working with the director again. In an interview with the Guardian, Caine said: “I am a patron of the NSPCC [National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children] and have very strong views about pedophilia. I can’t come to terms with [the allegation], because I loved Woody and had a wonderful time with him. I even introduced him to Mia [Farrow]. I don’t regret working with him, which I did in complete innocence; but I wouldn’t work with him again, no.” Allen said in a statement in January, “I never molested my daughter – as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago.” Caine joins a growing number of actors who have appeared in Allen movies but who recently have detached themselves from the director, including Greta Gerwig, Mira Sorvino, Timothée Chalamet, Colin Firth and Rebecca Hall. Others like Baldwin and Diane Keaton have remained loyal to Allen.