Director Ridley Scott says it was a “simple” decision to drop Kevin Spacey from a key role in his new movie.
Spacey, 58, had been cast as billionaire J. Paul Getty in Scott’s “All the Money in the World,” due out Dec. 22. The movie, which also stars Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams, had been fully completed by the time actor Anthony Rapp came forward to accuse Spacey of sexually harassing him when he was 14 years old.
The news prompted Scott to call for what Entertainment Weekly describes as an “unprecedented emergency reshoot” of all of Spacey’s scenes, with Christopher Plummer stepping in to play Getty instead. The decision presented a number of challenges, especially because the director was determined to maintain the film’s release date in late December.
Scott told EW that he was holed up in London’s Abbey Road Studios when news of the allegations against Spacey broke last month. (Since Rapp came forward with his story, about 30 people have…
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