I'll be honest and say I feel really conflicted about this.https://twitter.com/TheInSneider/status/928434850381553665 …
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Apparently Spacey's harassment was well known, yet he still got big acting gigs. To edit him out kind of whitewashes complicity of Hollywood
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Movies are a business. Spacey's presence in the film would likely kill the film's prospects.
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It's not like they're retroactively replacing him in SE7EN, USUAL SUSPECTS or AMERICAN BEAUTY. Those films have come and gone.
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I always refer people to Richard Wagner re: artist vs man and separating the two.
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Please share more about that.
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Why? This isn't Spacey's film. He was a hired hand.
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"We didn't know he was a creepazoid when we were shooting this. Now we do. Now we aren't willing to have him tarnish a good movie."
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Except that they knew.
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I don’t see any confusion of art and artist here. I see a legitimate desire to draw distance from and socially sanction serial abusers.
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I think the most positive effect of this is as a deterrent to future potential offenders
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