While speaking to The Wall Street Journal earlier this week, Allen again addressed the sexual abuse claims, maintaining his innocence, and spoke about the fallout from the controversy he faced, which has included a number of stars declaring they no longer want to work with him.

He called cancel culture, “just dumb.”

While Allen has maintained his innocence, he acknowledged that many actors have not wanted to work with him in light of the allegations. “If an actor says, ‘I won’t work with him,’ basically, the actor is thinking, ‘I’m doing a good thing,’ from his point of view, ‘I’m making a contribution, I’m making a statement,’” he told The Wall Street Journal. “But he’s really making a mistake. Some day he may learn that.”

“I would think they would have more common sense, when they read about the situation. What surprises me, always, is how ready and willing people are to embrace it,” he said. “I would think someone reading the details would think, ‘That’s a little dicey looking to me.’”

Allen spoke about cancel culture one year after Mia admitted she was able to separate her experiences as a collaborator of Allen’s and the “trials and tribulations” that followed in their personal lives.

“I completely understand if an actor decides to work with him. I’m not one who’d say, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t,’” Mia, who worked on 13 films with Allen, added while appearing on CBS Sunday Morning in September 2024.