Judi Dench Says Kevin Spacey And Harvey Weinstein’s Work Should Not Be Diminished
Judi Dench is choosing to separate the work of Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein from their sexual predation behavior.
In an interview with The Radio Times, Judi said that while she condemns their actions, the men’s screen and stage work should not be diminished.
“What kind of agony is that?” she posed about Kevin’s firing of 2017’s All The Money In The World. “Are we going to negate 10 years at the Old Vic and everything that he did [as artistic director] — how wonderful he’s been in all those films? Are we just not going to see all those films that Harvey produced?”
“You cannot deny somebody a talent,” she added. “You might as well never look at a Caravaggio painting. You might as well never have gone to see Noël Coward [the playwright who was also accused of predatory behavior].”
Judi also said she knew nothing about Weinstein’s sexual assaults.
As far as Kevin, whom Judi described as a “good friend,” The Old Vic received at least 20 personal testimonies of alleged inappropriate behavior by Kevin, who was artistic director between 2004 and 2015.