Alexa Nikolas calls out Blake Lively over her Woody Allen comments
Alexa Nikolas, star of Zoey 101 and creator of Eat Predators, has called out Blake Lively over her comments about Woody Allen.
In 2016, Blake Lively starred in Woody Allen's film Cafe Society. This was one of his last films before he was expelled from Hollywood over his child sexual abuse allegations, and two years after Dylan Farrow wrote a heartfelt letter in Vanity Fair detailing her abuse. While on the press tour for the movie - the same press tour where she was rude to a Norwegian journalist that has since gone viral - she made several comments about the allegations against Woody Allen.
First, at the opening night screening for the film at the Cannes Film Festival, master of ceremonies Laurent Lafitte shocked the audience when he said “It’s very nice that you’ve been shooting so many movies in Europe, even if you are not being convicted for rape in the U.S.” At a lunch for the film the next day, Blake criticized him saying "I think that was a hard thing swallow in 30 seconds. Film festivals are such a beautiful, respectful festivals of film and artists and to have that, it felt like it wouldn’t have happened if it was in the 1940s. I can’t imagine Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby going out and doing that. It was more disappointing for the artists in the room that someone was going up there making jokes about something that wasn’t funny.”
Next, Ronan Farrow, Dylan's brother, had just published an article in the Hollywood Reporter the day before titled "My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Unasked Questions" in which he discussed the culture of support surrounding his father in Hollywood. Blake was asked about it but commented that she hadn't read it yet. "I came home and went to bed at whatever time we finished. I haven’t been in it, so I don’t want to speak on something I haven’t read. I think that’s dangerous. It’s definitely something that being at the festival, the media these days, you come to a film festival about film and people talk about all different types of things. You know? That can be definitely tricky to navigate, I’m sure. I don’t want to speak about something I haven’t read.”
However she then gave an interview to the LA Times where she seemingly dismisses the accusations against him. "It’s amazing what Woody has written for women. It’s very dangerous to factor in things you don’t know anything about. I could [only] know my experience. And my experience with Woody is he’s empowering to women.”
A month later she gave another interview to Hamptons magazine where she gushed over him and again called him "very empowering".
Alexa Nikolas called out these comments on Instagram, and also that the "It Ends With Us" soundtrack, the film of which Blake is a producer, includes music from Alexa's abuser Rhye whom she has been very vocal about, who groomed her when she was 16 and he was 33.
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