Maybe it’s time to stop asking Scarlett Johansson if her mind has changed about Woody Allen, someone she considers a friend and collaborator even after many of his actors have disowned their work with the director in light of Dylan Farrow’s account of sexual abuse. She’s not changing her mind any time soon!
In a profile for Vanity Fair, writer Chris Heath asks her how she feels about “the general phenomenon whereby she has said things which have generated substantial amounts of fuss,” which is a weird way of saying it. “I’m not a politician, and I can’t lie about the way I feel about things,” Johansson says, adding that she just can’t edit or temper herself. “That, to me, doesn’t seem very progressive at all. That seems scary,” she says. It’s true, it’s quite ballsy and progressive to stand by a man accused of child abuse and only talk about your stance in vague terms in magazine profiles.