My original tweet made people infer that being on set somehow convinced me of his guilt. It’s time to show a courage in my actions mirroring my words without concession."Īt the point in the response cycle where I’m getting equal amounts of (separate) criticism for taking the job as believing that he’s guilty.Īfter his comments started gaining attention over the weekend, Newman returned to Twitter with some added thoughts on the reactions to his tweets:ġ. I can’t keep professionally operating from a place of fear. I've been steadfast in what I stand for in my personal life and on Twitter, but would largely take the check and bite my tongue on set. "I've spent the last decade struggling as an actor, and learned to sideline my views because the thought of closing any doors was terrifying.
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I learned conclusively that I cannot put my career over my morals again," he said in followup tweets about the film (not Wonder Wheel, but rather the next Allen movie scheduled to be released in 2018). "It was an educational experience for all the wrong reasons. I felt there things to be gained from the experience on that set. "I had been feeling this way for the last month, but the awful continuance revelations of the last week compounded my guilt ten fold," he said. Amidst these stories, actor Griffin Newman, who stars in Amazon's The Tick, posted a long tweetstorm this weekend about his mixed feelings about working on Woody Allen's next movie. Over the last week, dozens of women have come forward to share stories about their alleged sexual assault or harassment at the hands of Harvey Weinstein (and other men) in Hollywood, while also imploring men to speak out about known abusers.