Allen, Woody: Joy and Thrill of Moviemaking Gone

Woody Allen Might End Directing Career Soon: ‘A Lot of the Thrill Is Gone’

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Woody Allen made rare live appearance for an interview on Alec Baldwin’s Instagram account, which has 2.4 million followers.

Allen directed Baldwin in “Alice” (1990), “To Rome With Love” (2012) and “Blue Jasmine” (2013). The actor called Allen’s films a “warm bath for me that makes everything ok.” Allen announced he is considering ending his directing career after his next movie, which will shoot in Paris.

“I’ll probably make at least one more movie. A lot of the thrill is gone,” Allen said. “When I used to do a film it’d go into a movie house all across the country. Now you do a movie and you get a couple weeks in a movie house. Maybe six weeks or four weeks and then it goes right to streaming or pay-per-view…It’s not the same…It’s not as enjoyable to me.”

“I don’t get the same fun doing a movie and putting it in a theater,” Allen added. “It was a nice feeling to know that 500 people were seeing it once… I don’t know how I feel about making movies. I’m going to make another one and I’ll see how it feels.”

“Are they in a room where they have the best Wifi?” Baldwin was heard asking someone off camera after Allen dropped out of the feed for a second time. “They need to be in a room with the best Wifi in the house.”

Allen has continued to face backlash after his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, accused him of molesting her as a child. The allegation was at the center of HBO’s 2021  docu series “Allen v. Farrow,” which included a never-before-seen home video of 7-year-old Farrow talking about the alleged assault shortly after she alleges it occurred. Allen has long denied the allegation and called it “untrue and disgraceful” in a statement following the release of the HBO series.

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