Filmmaker and actor Woody Allen has told podcaster Bill Maher that he plans on 'dying in the next few years'.
Renowned for his neurotic characters in films such as Love and Death, Annie Hall, and Manhattan, the 89-year-old's reputation took something of a battering in the early 1990s.
Allen's ex, Mia Farrow, accused him of sexually abusing their adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, although a subsequent investigation by the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of Yale-New Haven Hospital found no evidence to back this allegation.
Speaking to talk show host Maher on his Club Random podcast this week, Allen addressed his mortality while the pair were discussing the eventual collapse of the universe.
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"I will come apart long before the universe," he said. "I mean, I'm at the end of... in December I'll be 90, and I plan on dying in the next few years."
Maher, who's presented HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher since 2003, pointed out how the advances of artificial intelligence could one day save his guest from death.
"Would you live forever if AI would let you?" he asked, to which the Hollywood star replied: "What would they do, insert a little mechanism in my head?"
Maher noted: "I don't have the blueprint but AI is doing amazing things.
"It would just reverse the deterioration of cell damage which is what kills us. It's not unreasonable that they could come up with something where you would literally be immortal."
Keen to stick to the path of a realist, Allen went on to highlight how he's almost 90 years old and 'they have nothing' ready to go as of yet, technology-wise.
He was also on the receiving end of a compliment in which Maher mentioned how he still looks 'completely recognizable' as himself in his late-80s.
"Well yeah but that can change overnight," Allen responded. "Suddenly you hit that number and then I come in here with osteoporosis and shaking..."
Further along their conversation, Bullets over Broadway director Allen also paid tribute to his biological genes in terms of his own continued health.
"I've been very lucky," he said. "My parents had longevity and so I've been blessed so far without - but you know, I've spoken to people who I'm saying 'It's remarkable, you're 95 years old and you look so great, you're so vigorous' and everything is great, and the next thing they're dead."
This comes after the star labeled cancel culture 'silly' during a 2023 interview with Variety.
"I feel if you’re going to be canceled, this is the culture to be canceled by. I just find that all so silly. I don’t think about it. I don’t know what it means to be canceled," he revealed, before weighing in on the historical allegations of abuse made against him.
"My reaction has always been the same. The situation has been investigated by two people, two major bodies, not people, but two major investigative bodies. And both, after long detailed investigations, concluded there was no merit to these charges, that, you know, is exactly as I wrote in my book, Apropos of Nothing. There was nothing to it."
Topics: Celebrity
Dan Seddon