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.

Brian Cox has come out swinging to defend Kevin Spacey following the cancellation of his career. The 78- year-old Scottish actor starred alongside Spacey, 65, in the 1994 Disney film Iron Will where they formed a close bond.

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,