Rosie O’Donnell turned down Woody Allen film after allegations: ‘F–k no’

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The Howard Stern Show” that she turned down a role in one of Allen’s movies — after a 1995 comedy special where she addressed the child abuse charges against the director.“I had done an HBO special where I said everything about him,” she said. “And then I got on my show.

So it’s the first year of my show and I get a call and they said, ‘He wants you to be in [‘Sweet and Lowdown’]. I said, ‘Please send him my HBO special.’ And the woman said, ‘Oh he’s already seen it.’”“And I said, ‘Send it anyway with two words: F—k no.’ And I sent it to him,” she continued.The “A League of Their Own” actress said Allen’s team was unrelenting in trying to get her to be in the 1999 film — which starred Sean Penn and Uma Thurman — even knowing how she felt about the 86-year-old director.“They called back and said, ‘He really wants you to do it.

He’d like to talk to you about it,” O’Donnell remembered. “I said, ‘I’m not doing it. I’m not working for him or with him and being associated with him.”O’Donnell seemed to recall Allen being upset that “he couldn’t use his weight to entice someone over to his side” while he “had a lot of people under his spell.”Allen was accused of sexually abusing his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow when she was 7 years old.

The allegations are the subject of the HBO true crime documentary “Allen v. Farrow.”The director has denied the claims, telling CBS Sunday Morning: “It’s so preposterous and yet the smear has remained.