Despite Kevin Spacey‘s fall from grace in recent years, he still has at least some allies in Hollywood.
Following sexual misconduct allegations against the 2x Oscar winner in 2017, Brian Cox recently spoke up in defense of his “old friend” Spacey as he decried cancel culture in Hollywood.
“Kevin is an old friend of mine. All right, Kevin did certain things… He also did a lot of extraordinary work,” he told The i Paper. “And I find that really petty, and I just don’t like it. It’s sneaky and petty and not right.
“Not everybody is abusive. I’ve never found Kevin Spacey abusive. He was misguided, certainly, in terms of his sexuality, but that’s to do with him coming to terms with his own sexuality and how he’s dealt with that, and the dilemma that it’s caused in his life.
“We’ve got to an age now where people are going, ‘Oh, that’s bad, he’s out, boom, he’s cancelled.’ What do you mean ‘cancelled’? How dare you cancel anybody?” added Cox, who starred with Spacey in the 1994 Walt Disney Pictures movie Iron Will.
After he was found not liable in a 2022 lawsuit brought by Anthony Rapp and found not guilty in a London civil sex crimes trial in 2023, Spacey was the subject of the Channel 4 documentary Spacey Unmasked, which debuted in the US on Max last year.
“I can’t pay the bills that I owe,” Spacey told Piers Morgan last year after revealing his Baltimore home was in foreclosure following his lack of work since the allegations. “I’m not quite sure where I’m going to live now.”
Spacey’s crime thriller Peter Five Eight premiered at AFM in November.
