The director calls out the 24-year-old in his new memoir (via toofab)
. "Timothée afterward publicly stated he regretted working with me and was giving the money to charity, but he swore to my sister he needed to do that as he was up for an Oscar for 'Call Me by Your Name,' and he and his agent felt he had a better chance of winning if he denounced me, so he did."Chalamet would ultimately lose out on the Academy Award to Gary Oldman, for "Darkest Hour".
"This year has changed the way I see and feel about so many things; it has been a thrilling, and, at times, enlightening education," he wrote. "I am learning that a good role isn't the only criteria for accepting a job -- that has become much clearer to me in the past few months, having witnessed the birth of a powerful movement intent on ending injustice, inequality and above all, silence.
"The fact these actors and actresses never looked into the details of the case did not stop them from speaking out publicly with dogged conviction," Allen wrote in the book. "Some said it was now their policy to always believe the woman. I would hope most thinking people reject such simple-mindedness."
He thanked the colleagues who did speak out in his defense, assuring them: "it's not something they will ever be embarrassed having done."
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