Kevin Spacey needs to act. It’s his drug. He was hooked on acting for close to four decades before he was stripped of that right due to #MeToo allegations brought forth against him two years ago. The 60-year-old actor has admitted to having gotten offers from European financiers to act in their movies.
Of note, we do have to mention that it’s not just Spacey, but Dustin Hoffman is now acting in Europe as well due to being thrown to the stake during #MeToo hysteria. The reckoning of third wave feminism just came crashing down on these guys.
If you remember, Spacey was kicked off his own Netflix show, “House Of Cards,“ and then had his already shot role in Ridley Scott’s “All The Money In The World” completely erased and redone by actor Christopher Plummer. Spacey last year even released a strange video where he appeared as Frank Underwood, the conniving U.S. President he played in “House Of Cards,” in which he mentioned: "I'm certainly not going to pay the price for the thing I didn't do."
It does look like, for the time being, Spacey will be settling down in Europe. For months he has kept out of the public eye, but now he’s back and reading poetry about “a wounded performer determined not to succumb to the blows he endures.”
That’s right, Spacey appeared in front of Greek statue “Boxer at Rest” in Rome, to read Gabriele Tinti’s poem The Boxer, about an exhausted fighter used for entertainment then left bleeding by the ringside. Yikes. Dressed in a tobacco-colored suit, Spacey surprised Italians strolling by the monument with an impromptu reading of the poem. The poem’s author, Tinti, said it was "an honour" to have the actor read his poem, writing on Twitter: "What a wonderful night! Everyone was so happy to celebrate art, it was an honor to have Kevin Spacey reading my poems, Rome loves you! A picture is worth a thousand words."
Excerpt from the poem: "They used me for their entertainment, fed on shoddy stuff. Life was over in a moment” and “The more you're wounded the greater you are. And the more empty you are. I have endured no end of sleepless nights. I have spent hours and hours sweating to destroy and fall”.
At the moment, it’s a celebratory time for Spacey, who had the sexual misconduct charges against him dropped in Massachusetts a few weeks ago. That hasn’t stopped investigators from London to L.A. from continuing to try and find dirt and investigate the actor over six other allegations of sexual assault.
Most of these charges stem from Spacey’s time as the artistic director at London's The Old Vic theatre between 2004 and 2015. The actor did apologize for any "inappropriate drunken behaviour,” but says he can’t remember any incidents of wrongdoing during that time. The theater found 20 people claiming Spacey was involved in inappropriate behavior.