Actor Alec Baldwin has expressed support for filmmaker Woody Allen as a growing number of entertainment industry stars seek to distance themselves from the famed director as part of the campaign against sexual misconduct.
Baldwin, who appeared in three of Allen's films, said on Twitter that the renunciation of the director and his work was "unfair and sad to me."
Baldwin said working with Allen was "one of the privileges of my career."
Allen has repeatedly denied decades-old accusations that he molested his adopted daughter Dylan when she was seven years old in the early 1990s.
But sentiment has turned against him during the sexual misconduct scandal sweeping Hollywood that has led to dozens of successful men being forced to resign or being dropped from projects.
Director Woody Allen. Source: AAP
Baldwin said he did not intend to "dismiss or ignore such complaints."
"But accusing people of such crimes should be treated carefully," he added.
Representatives of Allen did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. The director has never been charged with a crime.
Allen, 82, won Oscars for the films Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters and the 2011 comedy Midnight in Paris, and continues to release a new movie almost every year.
Timothee Chalamet, the star of the film Call Me By Your Name, this week became the latest actor to announce he will donate the salary he earned from an Allen movie to the Time's Up movement and other causes for sexual abuse victims.
He followed Rebecca Hall, Ellen Page and Mira Sorvino who have made donations or issued regrets about working with Allen in recent weeks.
Actor Timothee Chalamet. Source: AAP
Last week Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig, who acted in the 2012 film To Rome with Love, said she would not work with Allen again.
