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Mira Sorvinois reflecting on her award-winning performance inWoody Allen’s 1995 filmMighty Aphrodite.
The actress, 54, who earned an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for the movie, said on the Thursday episode ofMarc Maron’sWTFpodcastthat the experience has “tainted” her early career.
“It really, in a certain way, ruinsMighty Aphroditefor me, ruins my Oscar performance, ruins that start of my career, because I treasured it for years and then it’s like, I should have denounced him and I should have known it then,” Sorvino continued. “I didn’t know it then but I didn’t look deep enough to actually educate myself to really make an educated opinion at the time. It’s not an excuse, I should have.
“Just because he was as brilliant as he was, just because I grew up reading his books and performing his plays in my high school and just idolizing him, doesn’t mean he’s not a terrible person who hurt his daughter, who hurt a child, and there is no forgiveness for that.”
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Sorvino, who came forward withallegations of sexual misconductagainstHarvey Weinstein, explained that the film was also when the producer took an interest in her.
Sorvino added that she has since become friends with Allen’s daughterDylanafter shepenned her an open letterin 2018, committing to never work with the director again. “She’s an amazing person, and I have no doubt in my mind that [she] is telling the truth,” Sorvino said on the podcast.
Dylan, 36, claimed that Allen, 86, molested her when she was 7. Allen has long denied the allegations, which first surfaced during his explosive 1992 split from Mia, 77. Allen was not charged, though a Connecticut prosecutor said there wasprobable cause for a criminal case. In 2014, Dylan detailed her allegations in aNew York Timesop-ed.
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Sorvino — who also worked with Weinstein, 69, onBlue in the Face(1995),Beautiful Girls(1996) andMimic(1997) — was among the first womento accuse Weinstein of sexual harassmentin 2017 and several directors have sinceadmitted to blacklisting herat Weinstein’s request.
Weinsteinwas found guiltyon charges of first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape in 2020 andsentenced to 23 yearsin prison.
source: people.com
