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Guy Pearce on working with ‘handsy’ Spacey His House of Cards bosses fired him from the show, and director Ridley Scott quickly excised his completed scenes from All the Money in the World and re-shot them with Christopher Plummer, who was Oscar-nominated for his 11th-hour efforts.Ī number of people have since come forward with accusations against Spacey, and London’s Metropolitan Police are investigating sexual assault claims three men have made against him. The falloutĪs much as I appreciate Spacey’s talent, I’m glad the powers that be haven’t been as lenient as some men have been (including - shocker! - Morrissey, who stood up for him in November and cautioned against confusing ‘sexual harassment’ with ‘a pathetic attempt at courtship’). I want to deal with this honestly and openly and that starts with examining my own behavior. I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man. As those closest to me know, I have had relationships with both men and women.
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I know that there are stories out there about me and that some have been fueled by the fact that I have been so protective of my privacy. This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life. But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years. I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago. I have a lot of respect and admiration for Anthony Rapp as an actor. Oh, and he tacked on a sort-of apology to Rapp for his possible sexual misconduct. Spacey used Rapp’s revelation as an opportunity to tweet-reveal what so many of us already knew: He’s gay. At the time, Rapp, who said he managed to ‘squirm’ away, was 14 years old. After all the other guests had left, Spacey allegedly picked him up, carried him to a bed, and got on top of him. In an interview with BuzzFeed that ran on October 30 of last year, Rapp said the events unfolded when Spacey invited him to a party at his Manhattan apartment. He said the future two-time Oscar winner made sexual advances toward him in 1986, when they were both starring in Broadway plays. ‘He shouldn’t be fired for that.’Īccording to Rapp (Rent, Six Degrees of Separation), 46, Spacey, 58, went further than a light tap. ‘What if a man lightly taps a female colleague’s butt to compliment her on doing a good job, like sports players do?’ he argued.
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He then argued that perhaps #MeToo was already going too far. ‘Does he deserve to have his career ruined?’ ‘But he’s such a great actor,’ a gay Hungarian in Budapest told me in December. Last October, when actor Anthony Rapp accused Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct, I was less surprised by his claim than by how some men – particularly gay men – reacted to it.