According to Woody Allen's new memoir, Timothée Chalamet didn't want his work with the controversial filmmaker to rain on his 2018 Oscars parade.
In a passage from Allen's book Apropos of Nothing, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker — who's long denied accusations that he molested former partner Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow — says the 24-year-old star of his most recent movie A Rainy Day in New York publicly denounced him after production ended in a bid to boost his chances at winning an Oscar for his performance in Luca Guadagnino's 2017 drama Call Me by Your Name.
"All three leads in Rainy Day were excellent and a pleasure to work with," Allen said of Chalamet and costars Elle Fanning and Selena Gomez, who appeared in the film (also starring Jude Law, Diego Luna, and Liev Schreiber) about a college student's romantic escapades in Manhattan. "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."
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