A fascinating profile of Kevin Spacey via ZEITmagazin is going to have people talking.
The “cancelled” actor is convinced that people will start hiring him again for more acting projects if he is cleared of the sexual assault charges in London. The trial is set to begin on June 28.
It’s a time in which a lot of people are very afraid that if they support me, they will be canceled. But I know that there are people right now who are ready to hire me the moment I am cleared of these charges in London. The second that happens, they’re ready to move forward.
Spacey is blaming the media for destroying his image and that he is not the monster they report him to be:
The media have done their best to turn me into a monster, but from the people, I have seen nothing but affection.
Spacey confirmed that during his downtime from acting he’s been writing scripts and short films, but he wants to act again, it’s in his blood, his DNA, and he sure as hell won’t quit:
Now, I often feel like I’m back at the beginning of my career, when nobody wanted me…Just because I was being benched for a while, I’m not going to stop working. I don’t want to get rusty. I’m ready.
These past five years have not been good for Spacey, but things seem to slowly be turning around for the actor.
Last year, a jury acquitted Spacey 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.
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 his case.
That hasn’t stopped investigators from London to L.A. in continuing to investigate the actor over other allegations of sexual assault. The London 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” in 2017 and had his already-shot role in Ridley Scott’s “All The Money In The World” completely erased and redone by the late Christopher Plummer in 2018.
Directors Paul Schrader and Bernardo Bertolucci have defended Spacey over these latest rounds of accusations.
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