He has drawn criticism, though, from Bernardo Bertolucci, director of [checks notes] Last Tango in Paris, who spoke about the Spacey scandal at a screening of his movie in Bari.
When I learned that Ridley Scott had agreed to eliminate the scenes of All the Money in the World in which Kevin Spacey was playing, I sent a message to editor Peter Scalia to tell Scott that he should be ashamed.
He later said that he would be interested in making a film with Spacey.
It was a strategy to avoid bad press, and it mostly worked, casting Scott instead as a director who would refuse to work with a known harasser.