Liam Neeson and Sharon Stone joined with Stephen Fry and F. Murray Abraham in expressing assist for Kevin Spacey‘s return to Hollywood this week. Their feedback come on the heels of newly surfaced allegations in opposition to Spacey within the current Spacey Unmasked documentary.

“Kevin is an effective man and a person of character,” Neeson advised The Telegraph, including he was “deeply saddened” to study of recent accusations in opposition to the Home of Playing cards actor.

Spacey has not labored in Hollywood since a number of males accused him of sexual misconduct starting in 2017. In 2022, a New York jury deemed he was not liable within the assault of actor Anthony Rapp, and final summer season, he was acquitted of 9 costs introduced in opposition to him in London. A number of different lawsuits have been dropped as effectively, and Spacey has denied all allegations. This month, nevertheless, 10 extra males got here ahead with alleged abuse in Spacey Unmasked, a two-part Channel 4 documentary directed by Katherine Haywood.

“I cannot sit again and be attacked by a dying community’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me of their determined try for rankings,” Spacey wrote on X, previously Twitter, in response to the mission, slamming the producers for not giving him time to reply.

Neeson continued this week by saying that Spacey is “one in all our most interesting artists within the theatre and on digital camera. Personally talking, our business wants him and misses him enormously.”

Stone added, “I can’t wait to see Kevin again at work. He’s a genius. He’s so elegant and enjoyable, beneficiant to a fault and identified extra about our craft than most of us ever will.”

She added that it was clear younger actors had “wished and need to be round him”, saying, “It’s horrible that they’re blaming him for not with the ability to come to phrases with themselves for utilizing him and negotiating with themselves as a result of they didn’t get their secret agendas.”

Abraham mentioned he would “vouch for [Spacey] unequivocally,” including, “Who’re these vultures who assault a person who has publicly accepted his accountability for sure conduct, in contrast to so many others?… He’s a tremendous man, I stand with him, and let he who’s with out sin forged the primary stone.”

Fry criticized the documentary, saying, “To proceed to harass and hound [Spacey], to dedicate a complete documentary to accusations that merely don’t add as much as crimes… how can that be thought-about proportionate and justified?”