PARIS - Roman Polanski was facing calls for a boycott of his new film which opened in France on Wednesday , in the wake of the latest rape accusation against the controversial director.
"We cannot allow him to wipe this away, and going to see this film is that," she added after a preview screening in Paris was cancelled on Tuesday night when demonstrators blocked people entering."I don't want to go and buy a movie ticket in this context," she told French broadcaster RTL, while rejecting the idea of a boycott.
The 86-year-old French-Polish director has been a fugitive from US justice since admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977 in a plea bargain to avoid a trial on more serious charges. ANTI-SEMITISM WARNING The maker of Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown was expelled from the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last year for sexual misconduct, although Polanski has gone to court to get his membership back.
"I find it very worrying that he is being attacked at this moment, with anti-Semitism rising in Europe," she told French television news channel BFMTV.
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