These past five years have not been good for Kevin Spacey, but things seem to slowly be turning around for the actor.
Today, a jury found Spacey not guilty in regards to the molestation charges brought forth against him by actor Anthony Rapp. There were plenty of holes in Rapp’s account of the events, but I still wondered if Spacey could get out of this one. He did and now we’re wondering what’s next.
Spacey had also been charged in 2017 for, allegedly, sexually assaulting the teenage son of former Boston WCVB-TV news anchor Heather Unruh at a Nantucket bar in July 2016. Then the charges against the actor were dropped. Spacey’s accuser had altered phone records/text messages. When the accuser took the fifth in court, that sealed the deal and the complainant lost the case.
That hasn’t stopped investigators from London to L.A. from continuing to try and find dirt and investigate the actor over other allegations of sexual assault. Directors Paul Schrader and Bernardo Bertolucci have defended Spacey over these latest rounds of accusations.
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.
Last we heard of Spacey, the actor, he had been kicked off his own Netflix show, “House Of Cards,“ and had his already-shot role in Ridley Scott’s “All The Money In The World” completely erased and redone by Christopher Plummer.
Last year, the New York Post reported that Spacey was already plotting his Hollywood comeback, stating that he was “still getting acting offers from Europe and Russia.”
Spacey’s not out of the woods just yet, he has another trial, stemming from another accuser, coming up next summer in the UK.
I can confirm that Joel Coen’s “Jack of Spades” is based on Frances Frederica Montrésor’s 1901 novel “The Alien: A Story of Middle Age.” It’s a ghost story. A gothic mystery.