‘MONEY’ FLIPS MARK’S WORLD
Spacey claims led to reshoots for Dot star
For Mark Wahlberg, reshooting scenes for “All the Money in the World,” after director Ridley Scott decided to cut Kevin Spacey from the flick, wasn’t void of complications.
“My whole world was just kind of upside-down because I was shooting another movie,” the Dorchester native told “Extra.” “I was 30 pounds lighter … I had a beard … It was definitely a crazy set of circumstances.”
Seven weeks before the movie’s release, Scott asked Wahlberg and actress Michelle Williams to redo a number of scenes, sans Spacey, in response to the disgraced actor’s sexual misconduct scandal.
Spacey had been cast to play billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty in the movie, which follows the real-life 1973 abduction of his 16-year-old grandson, John Paul Getty III, in Rome. The film had already wrapped when actor Anthony Rapp came forward to accuse Spacey of sexual assault when he was 14 years old, with additional allegations from other men to follow.
The two-time Oscar winner, who has since entered treatment at a rehab facility, made a lukewarm apology on Twitter, claiming he did “not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago.” Spacey also controversially used his October tweet as an opportunity to come out as gay to the public.
Once Rapp’s story hit, Scott asked himself, “How am I going to replace him?” he told “Extra” about Spacey. The director quickly recast Christopher Plummer as the eldest Getty and hasn’t spoken to Spacey, explaining, “No one called me, so I’m not going to call. He’s certainly not going to call me. But I don’t really care now. It’s done.”
“You can’t tolerate any kind of behavior like that,” Scott previously said of Spacey when he made the decision to replace him with Plummer. “And it will affect the film. We cannot let one person’s action affect the good work of all these other people. It’s that simple.”
Looks like that was a smart call on Scott’s part: Last week, he, Plummer and Williams were all nominated for Golden Globe awards for their “good work” in “All the Money in the World,” which is set to hit theaters Christmas Day.