'A lot of the thrill is gone': Woody Allen hints he could give up filmmaking in rare live interview - with Alec Baldwin

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Woody Allen has hinted that he might give up filmmaking while speaking about his career during a rare media appearance chatting to actor Alec Baldwin live on Instagram. Allen, who worked with Baldwin on the films Alice (1990), To Rome With Love (2012) and Blue Jasmine (2013), said that after making 49 films in his 86 years, "a lot of the thrill is gone" thanks to streaming.

The pair chatted for almost an hour, but while Allen spoke about his recent memoir, social media and his career, he did not address the sexual abuse allegation that has followed him for decades, which he has always vehemently denied.

Speaking about writing and directing, he said he had started to enjoy not working during the pandemic. "I'll probably make at least one more movie, but the a lot of the thrill is gone because it doesn't have the whole cinema effect," Allen told Baldwin. "When I started, you'd do a film and it would go into a movie house, movie houses all over the country, and people would come, you know, by the hundreds to watch it in big groups on a big screen. "Now you do a movie and you get a couple of weeks in a movie house, maybe six weeks, four weeks, two, whatever.

And then it goes right to streaming or right to pay-per-view. And people love sitting home with their big screens and watching on their television sets and they have good sound and clear picture. "But it's not the same as when I went into the movie business and so it's not as enjoyable to me as it was.