The veteran director told a Spanish newspaper that it was “only a kiss and it was a friend. What’s wrong with that?”
Director Woody Allen says Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales should not lose his job for forcibly kissing a player on the lips after the Women’s World Cup final, saying it was not like he murdered someone or burnt down a school.El MundoWoody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn arrive for the world premiere of his new film at the Venice Film Festival.opening in Spanish cinemas later this month after a world premiere at the Venice Film Festival overnight.
“The first thing I thought was that they didn’t hide,” he continued. “He didn’t even kiss her in a dark alley. He wasn’t raping her. It was only a kiss and it was a friend. What’s wrong with that?”“Whatever the case, it’s difficult to understand that a person can lose their job and be penalised in that way for giving someone a kiss,” he said. “If it was inappropriate or too aggressive, you have to tell them clearly to not do that and he needs to apologise“It’s not like he murdered someone.
“Yes, that that’s right,” he said. “But, on the other side, it was something public. He wasn’t kissing her in his office with a closed door or anything like that where she would have been threatened. Allen addressed those allegations, which have tarnished his filmmaking career, in another interview in Venice.
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