Despite Kevin Spacey‘s fall from grace in recent years, he still has at least some allies in Hollywood. Following sexual misconduct allegations against the 2x Oscar winner in 2017, Brian Cox recently spoke up in defense of his “old friend” Spacey as he decried cancel culture in Hollywood.

In long, Cox brings up Spacey unprompted while railing against cancel culture. He finds the industry’s treatment of Spacey “sneaky and petty and not right.” “Kevin is an old friend of mine,” he says,

Brian Cox defended Kevin Spacey in a new interview with U.K. publication The i Paper, calling the Oscar winner "an old friend of mine" and asking the public: "How dare you cancel anybody?" Spacey has not worked in Hollywood since being accused by several men of sexual misconduct starting in 2017.