Actor Christopher Plummer has controversially expressed sympathy for disgraced Hollywood star Kevin Spacey, following numerous sexual misconduct allegations against the star.
The actor, set to replace Spacey in a forthcoming Ridley Scott thriller, said ‘it’s very sad what has happened to him,’ in a recent interview.
Despite the outcry against the Oscar winning actor’s alleged inappropriate sexual behaviour, Plummer, 87, said it is a ‘shame’ what has happened to Spacey.
Actor Christopher Plummer (right) has controversially expressed sympathy for disgraced Hollywood star Kevin Spacey (left) in light of numerous sexual misconduct allegations
‘I think it’s very sad what happened to him,’ Plummer told Vanity Fair. ‘Kevin is such a talented and a terrifically gifted actor, and it’s so sad. It’s such a shame. That’s all I can say, because that’s it.’
Adding: ‘Although the situation is very sad. I’m very saddened by what happened to Kevin, but what can I do? I’ve got a role.’
The controversial opinion provoked an outcry online, as social media users flocked to Twitter to express their anger.
One user, Charlotte Arkell, said she was: ‘Absolutely disgusted and ashamed of Plummer.’
Adding that Ridley Scott needed to recast Plummer too.
While another vented that the victims deserved sympathy and that Spacey was the perpetrator.
Another quoted Plummer’s comments sarcastically and said: ‘It’s very sad what’s happened to him? To HIM? Someone better fill Plummer in on the details [sic].’
Despite the outcry against the Oscar winning actor’s alleged inappropriate sexual behaviour, Plummer, 87, said it is a ‘shame’ what has happened to Spacey
The controversial opinion provoked an outcry online, as social media users flocked to Twitter to express their anger
One user, Charlotte Arkell, said she was: ‘Absolutely disgusted and ashamed of Plummer’
A Twitter hashtag dubbed #ReplaceHimToo also began to gain traction following the interview.
Plummer was revealed as the man to replace Spacey in ‘All The Money In The World’, with Scott reshooting all of Spacey’s scenes at a cost of millions,
Oscar winning director Scott is understood to have called Plummer this week to offer him the role.
Plummer was revealed as the man to replace Spacey as billionaire oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty (centre) in ‘All The Money In The World’, with Scott reshooting all of Spacey’s scenes at a cost of millions to the production company.
Filming had already wrapped on the thriller, a biographical crime drama about billionaire oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty.
Speaking in greater depth about the forthcoming production, he said: ‘It’s really not replacing [Spacey]. It’s starting all over again.’
The film is based the 1973 kidnapping in Italy of J.Paul Getty III, the grandson of the notoriously frugal oil baron Getty.