It’s like, ‘I am the victim because I have been falsely accused.’ “ People who are accused of sexual assault, that is the first move they make. This vicious woman has come after me.’ He is always painting himself as a victim, which again is classic.
We give their crimes cover.”Īdds Dick: “He was like, ‘I’m just this disheveled guy who is caught in the headlights. We imbue them with a certain trust and a love and then can’t believe or hear the cognitive dissonance. We have this celebrity culture, and that gives them this shield of impunity. “The way these crimes go unpunished and all the reasons they do, the way that all of us are unwittingly and wittingly complicit to some degree. “It really is a mirror to our society at large,” says Ziering.
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Farrow, which reexamines one of the most high-profile allegations of incest ever.įeaturing scores of people who have never before gone on camera to talk about the subject - including many who were at Farrow’s country home on that fateful day in 1992 - the series delves into the custody trial of the century and its impact on the woman at the center of the narrative, the now-35-year-old Dylan Farrow, as well as its broader reverberations. But nothing they’ve undertaken before compares to Allen v. Long before #MeToo punctured the Hollywood consciousness, the documentarians tackled the powerful, among them Harvard Law School for 2015’s Emmy-nominated campus rape doc The Hunting Ground and the Pentagon for The Invisible War, an exposé on sexual assault in the military that was nominated for an Oscar in 2013 and won two Emmys the following year. The doc marks the first time Farrow has publicly discussed her former partner and collaborator in decades and features Ronan Farrow, who once tried to dissuade his sister from participating. Allen has maintained that he never molested Dylan. 21 and airing in hourlong installments over four consecutive Sundays, the series offers plenty of bombshells, including the allegation that Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of Farrow and late musician André Previn, were in a sexual relationship while she was still in high school, and the holy grail of the Farrow-Allen narrative - never-before-seen video shot by Farrow of young Dylan recounting the alleged abuse. Farrow will launch on HBO, and the pair is racing to the finish line on a project they’ve made in secret over the past three years. In just two and a half weeks, the explosive Allen v. The filmmakers reach a stalemate and agree to revisit the issue later. What am I missing? What is your issue? I don’t even understand,” says Ziering.
But Ziering’s got supervising editor Sara Newens in her corner. The Zoom session grows more heated as Dick pushes back, enlisting editor and writer Mikaela Shwer in his defense.