Oscar winner Judi Dench has spoken out in support of "good friend" Kevin Spacey after it was announced he will not be charged for a number of alleged sex crimes dating back more than 25 years.
The Hollywood actor defended her 2001 co-star and praised Spacey for his incredible support on the set of The Shipping News following the death of her husband Michael Williams at the beginning of the same year.
Last year Spacey, 59, joined the ranks of a number of high-profile Hollywood figures to be disgraced by allegations of sexual misconduct.
Multiple claims of sexual assault and sexual harassment were made against the actor by various males, but Dench sprang to his defence at a press conference full of journalists to talk about the "wonderful actor" and speak about the #MeToo campaign which launched at the beginning of the year.
On Tuesday afternoon, the 83-year-old Bond actress spoke at Spain’s San Sebastian International Film Festival about their relationship while working on the 2001 movie, where Dench played Spacey’s long lost aunt.
The two apparently became friends in the wake of the death of Judi’s husband Michael Williams who passed away from lung cancer after 30 years of marriage.
She said: "Kevin was an inestimable comfort and never mentioned he knew I was in a bad way. He cheered me up and kept me going."
According to Variety , Dench had been promoting her latest movie Red Joan at the film festival, when she expressed her outrage at All The Money In The World bosses for replacing her co-star with Christopher Plummer in the 2017 film.
The pre-filmed scenes were removed from the movie and replaced in only a matter of weeks.
"I can’t approve, in any way, of the fact that — whatever he has done — that you then start to cut him out of the films," she said.
"Are we to do what happened when he was replaced with Christopher Plummer? Are we to do that throughout history?"
She added: "I don’t know about the conditions of it, but nevertheless he is, and was, a most wonderful actor. I can’t imagine what he is doing now… And a good friend."
Claims made against Spacey came to the surface last year when actor Anthony Rapp said he made a sexual advance towards him when Rapp was just 14.
Other allegations include
Spacey’s brother Randy – who says he was whipped, beaten and raped by their late father Geoff – made the shocking allegations that his brother changed his last name and “created the character of Kevin Spacey to mask a monster.”
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