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Dylan Farrow calls out Cate Blanchett, Blake Lively for hypocrisy

 		Dylan Farrow calls out Cate Blanchett, Blake Lively for hypocrisy

Dylan Farrow isn’t here for Cate Blanchett and Blake Lively’s seemingly selective opposition to sexual misconduct in Hollywood.

On Tuesday, Lively, 30, tweeted her support of Hollywood’s anti-sexual harassment Time’s Up initiative, writing, “I’m honored to be a part of this movement. The time is NOW! Go to http://timesupnow.com if you need legal support or if you want to donate ANY amount you can. #TIMESUP.”

The tweet accompanied an image that read in part, “To women in every industry who are subjected to indignities and offensive behavior that they are expected to tolerate to make a living: We stand with you. We support you.”

Farrow, 32, replied, “You worked with my abuser, @blakelively. Am I a woman who matters too?”

Farrow also questioned a New York Times Arts tweet that read, “Cate Blanchett, a vocal campaigner against sexual harassment, will lead this year’s Cannes jury. It’s seen as an about-face for a festival with a poor record on gender equality,” replying, “Can one be a ‘vocal campaigner against sexual harassment’ and a vocal supporter of Woody Allen? Seems a tad oxymoronic.”

Lively worked with Farrow’s father, Woody Allen, in his 2016 romcom “Café Society,” while Blanchett, 48, won an Oscar for her role in Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” in 2014.

Allen, 82, has previously been accused of sexually abusing Farrow when she was a child. Law enforcement had previously investigated the allegations, as did sexual abuse experts at Yale-New Haven Hospital, The Los Angeles Times reported. A prosecutor in Connecticut, where the assault allegedly occurred, said he had “probable cause” to prosecute in 1993 but declined to press charges in order to spare Farrow the trauma of a trial.

Allen, who is married to ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, has steadfastly denied the allegations since they first surfaced in 1993; Dylan previously claimed that Allen’s public relations team had attempted to discredit the claims and paint Mia as a scorned ex-lover.

In 2016, Lively told The Los Angeles Times, “It’s amazing what Woody has written for women,” adding of the abuse allegations against him, “It’s very dangerous to factor in things you don’t know anything about. I could [only] know my experience. And my experience with Woody is he’s empowering to women.”

It wasn’t the first time Farrow blasted the “Shallows” actress over her support of Allen despite being a vocal opponent of sexual harassment in Tinseltown. Last month, Farrow named Lively, along with Kate Winslet and Greta Gerwig, in an op-ed slamming their silence on Allen’s accusations.

“I have long maintained that when I was 7 years old, Woody Allen led me into an attic, away from the babysitters who had been instructed never to leave me alone with him. He then sexually assaulted me. I told the truth to the authorities then, and I have been telling it, unaltered, for more than 20 years,” Farrow wrote. “Why is it that Harvey Weinstein and other accused celebrities have been cast out by Hollywood, while Allen recently secured a multimillion-dollar distribution deal with Amazon, greenlit by former Amazon Studios executive Roy Price before he was suspended over sexual misconduct allegations?”

In a 2014 essay detailing her abuse allegations against Allen, Farrow asked of Blanchett, “What if it had been your child, Cate BlanchettLouis C.K.Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?”

When asked about the open letter at the time, Blanchett demurred, “It’s obviously been a long and painful situation for the family, and I hope they find some resolution and peace.”

Reps for Blanchett and Lively didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

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