Spike Lee is taking back the statements he made defending Woody Allen. In an interview with New York City radio station WOR’sIn the Morningprogram on Friday, the Da 5 Bloods director got candid about Allen and "cancel culture." "I’d just like to say Woody Allen is a great, great filmmaker and this cancel thing is not just Woody," Lee said on the show. "And I think when we look back on it we are going to see that — short of killing somebody — I don’t know that you can just erase somebody like they never existed." Lee went on to describe Allen as a "friend." "Woody is a friend of mine, a fellow Knick fan, so I know he’s going through it right now," Lee said.
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