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Actress speaks out about Spacey

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Michelle Williams is adamant she would have refused to promote All the Money in the World if Kevin Spacey hadn’t been cut from the film.

Former House of Cards star Spacey was replaced by the veteran actor Christophe­r Plummer after he was erased from the Ridley Scott movie following allegation­s of predatory sexual behaviour by Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp and others.

In an interview with the BBC, Williams, who stars as Gail Harris in the movie about the kidnapping of billionair­e oil magnate J. Paul Getty’s grandson, broke her silence about Spacey.

“We went through a lot with the film and we realized that this film that we loved and that we loved working on together was gonna basically be for naught,” she told BBC Online.

“And there was some sadness around that, more sadness around the allegation­s and the pain that’s been caused, and then this phone call came, this late-breaking idea of how to save the film, rewrite the story, do the right thing, and I was exuberantl­y immediatel­y on board.”

The 37-year-old actress explained how she found it particular­ly “upsetting” to be in a film with Spacey after the revelation­s of his sexual misconduct surfaced, and how she would have refused to promote the film, which also stars Mark Wahlberg and Timothy Hutton, had Spacey remained a part of it.

“I think that was one of the things that I found most upsetting about being in a film that he was also in, is that films because they’re larger than life is that they glorify people.”

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