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Spike Lee Backtracks Defense Of 'Friend' Woody Allen: 'My Words Were Wrong'

A question about Woody Allen could be the death knell for any press tour u2015 thoughts and prayers to Scarlett Johansson’s presumably very tired publicist u2015 but Spike Lee is trying to course-correct after defending the controversial filmmaker.

The “BlacKkKlansman” director has been busy promoting his new Netflix film, “Da 5 Bloods.” He called into New York’s WOR radio to talk about the war drama, which explores the traumas a group of Black veterans experienced during the Vietnam War.

In the interview, Lee defended Allen against cancel culture, suggesting he’d been unfairly maligned by the industry.