Those expressing support for Allen included Barbara Walters and Diane Keaton in 2014, as well as Javier Bardem, Jude Law, Alec Baldwin, Bill Maher, and Keaton again in January 2018. Robert B. Weide, who made a documentary film on Allen, published his rebuttals to the Farrow allegations in an article titled "The Woody Allen Allegations: Not So Fast"and dealt with the subject again in 2019 in two articles, "The truth about Woody Allen I and II". Cherry Jones said, "There are those who are comfortable in their certainty. I am not. I don't know the truth ... When we condemn by instinct our democracy is on a slippery slope." Emily Mortimer said, "I believe in due process...I think these things really need to go through all the legal processes before anyone can judge. I don’t really have an answer to those questions." Jeff Daniels said, "I believe Dylan Farrow. Would I do another one with Woody? The difficult decision would be to turn him down, because of The Purple Rose of Cairo." In February 2018, Savanah Lyon, a theater major at the University of California, San Diego, began organizing an online petition to have a course teaching Allen's films removed from the UCSD syllabus. Lyon said that because of the abuse allegations against him, the university should not have a class devoted to studying his work. On February 16, the UCSD Academic Senate announced that it would retain the course on Allen's work, stating that the removal of courses featuring "controversial material, or even material widely regarded as morally problematic" would undermine the values of free inquiry and academic freedom. Cate Blanchett, when asked about the allegations against Allen by Christiane Amanpour, replied, "At the time, I said it’s a very painful and complicated situation for the family, which I hope they have the ability to resolve." Blanchett added, "If these allegations need to be reexamined, which, in my understanding, they’ve been through court, then I'm a big believer in the justice system and setting legal precedents...If the case needs to be reopened, I am absolutely, wholeheartedly in support of that." Bardem said, "I am very shocked by this sudden treatment. Judgments in the states of New York and Connecticut found him innocent. The legal situation today is the same as in 2007. If there was evidence Woody Allen was guilty, then yes, I would have stopped working with him, but I have doubts." Bardem also said, "If the legal situation ever changes [regarding Allen], then I'd change my mind. But for now I don’t agree with the public lynching that he’s been receiving, and if Woody Allen called me to work with him again, I'd be there tomorrow morning. He's a genius.” Alan Alda said, "I'd work with him again if he wanted me. I'm not qualified to judge him. I don't know all the facts. I don't know if he's guilty or innocent. But you can be uncertain—that's what I go on. I just don't have enough information to convince me I shouldn't work with him. And he's an enormously talented guy." Michael Caine, who initially expressed regret about working with Allen and said he would never work with him again, later said, "If he had a trial and someone proved he had done something, I wouldn't do it, no. But I didn't read of him being on trial and being found guilty or fined or sent to prison or anything. This is all things that people say. You can’t go on hearsay the whole time." Jeff Goldblum said, "I think there is a presumption of innocence until proven guilty, I also admire his body of work. So I would consider working with him again, until I learned something more.”
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