To the question of journalists, as was furnished by the replacement of Spacei in the film and whether Ridley Scott told about this actor personally, the director answered:
"Not. And he did not call me. If he had called me and said something like "Hi, listen, everything turned out like this and I really sorry," I would led myself in this situation a little differently. I would have replaced him anyway. I would say something like "Yes, thanks for the call, but we must move on."
Ridley Scott said that when the scandal broke out with the charges of Kevin Spacei in sexual harassment, the film was already completed, but the misadventures of the director himself had just begun:
"I have already finished work on the film and worked in the recording studio over the soundtrack, when someone told me news. And here it all started. I began to think about it all and realized that we could not. We cannot get the behavior of any similar sense on the brakes. And that it will accurately damage the film. And we cannot, so that the actions of the only person crossed the work of all other people. That's so simple. "