Ridley Scott didn’t tell Spacey he was replacing him in new movie

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Director Ridley Scott never called Kevin Spacey to inform he was removing him from a new movie amid the disgraced actor's sexual misconduct scandal.

Scott, 79, says he made the decision to replace Spacey with Christopher Plummer in "All the Money in the World" without having a conversation with Spacey, who is accused of sexual harassment or sexual assault by numerous men.

"And he didn't call me," Scott told Entertainment Weekly in his first comments about the decision. "If he had called me and said, 'Hey, look, this is the way it is and I'm really sorry,' then I'd have handled it slightly differently."

Scott did not specify how he would've handled things had Spacey reached out, but he made it clear there was not a scenario where Spacey would remain in the upcoming drama.

"I'd have still done it. I would have said, 'Yes, thank you for calling, but I have to move on.'"

Production had already wrapped for "All the Money in the World" when allegations against Spacey first began to surface late last month. Scott announced the decision to replace Spacey on Nov. 8

Despite Scott having to reshoot every scene featuring Spacey — who had portrayed the subject of the biographical film, J. Paul Getty — with Plummer, the director says the movie is still on track for its originally scheduled Dec. 22 premiere.

Scott was pleased with Spacey's performance in the original cut of "All the Money in the World," but says he's now unsure whether the actor committed any impropriety behind the scenes.

"Well, I don't know. You never see that," Scott told EW. "But you can't condone that kind of behavior in any shape or form."

A new trailer for the movie featuring Plummer in the lead role was released Tuesday.

The first allegations against Spacey came in late October when actor Anthony Rapp accused him of climbing on top of him in bed in 1986, when Spacey would've been 26 and Rapp would've been 14. Spacey said shortly after in a statement that he didn't remember the incident, but says he owes Rapp an apology "if I did behave then the way he describes.

Additional allegations have poured in since, with London's The Old Vic theater — where Spacey served as artistic director from 2004 to 2015 — announcing earlier this month that it had received 20 personal testimonies from accusers without going into specifics.

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