(160511) -- CANNES, May. 11, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Director Woody Allen (L) and actress Kristen Stewart attend a photocall for the film "Cafe Society" during the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 11, 2016. (Xinhua/Jin Yu)
London, May 13 (PTI) "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart has defended her decision to work with Woody Allen.
The 26-year-old actress stars alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Steve Carell and Blake Lively in the director's latest offering Cafe Society.
However, her decision to appear in the film was slammed by Woody's estranged son Ronan Farrow, who said that by doing so she and the rest of the film's cast were ignoring the director's links to an alleged child molestation scandal, reported Contactmusic.
"I was like, 'What do you think? We don't know any of these people involved. I can personalise situations, which would be very wrong'," Stewart said.
"At the end of the day, Jesse and I talked about this. If we were persecuted for the amount of... That's been said about us that's not true, our lives would be over. The experience of making the movie was so outside of that, it was fruitful for the two of us to go on with it.
