Kate Winslet has expressed her regrets over working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski and wants to set a better example for young actors.
"It's like, what the f*** was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski?" Winslet told Vanity Fair in a new interview.
"It's unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were. It's f****** disgraceful. And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can't turn back the clock. I'm grappling with those regrets but what do we have if we aren't able to just be f****** truthful about all of it?"
Winslet has starred in Wonder Wheel, directed by Allen, and worked with Polanski on Carnage. Allen's daughter Dylan Farrow accused the director of sexually abusing her when she was a child. Polanski was arrested in 1977 for raping a 13-year-old girl, according to IndieWire. Despite appearing distancing herself from the controversy in a 2017 New York Times interview, saying "you put it to one side and just work with the person", Winslet now wants to do better. In 2018 she also alluded to her regrets working with the directors in a London Critics' Circle Film Awards' acceptance speech.