Woody Allen heaped unexpected praise on President Donald Trump during a sit-down with Bill Maher, recalling that the now-president was “very easy to work with” on his 1998 film Celebrity.

Appearing on Maher’s Club Random podcast, the 89-year-old director said Trump was “a pleasure to work with and a very good actor.”

“I’m not a Trumper,” Allen said. “I’m one of the few people who can say he directed Trump. I directed Trump in a movie. And he was a pleasure to work with and a very good actor. He was very polite—”

“How dare you,” Maher said.

“And hit his mark and did everything correctly and had a real flair for show business—” Allen continued.

“If you think you were canceled before…” Maher joked, referencing the allegations of sexual abuse that have haunted Allen for decades but came t

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