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Airing May 6 and 7 on Britain’s Channel 4, this explosive new documentary sums up all the sexual harassment allegations against the actor. House of cards.
A new twist in the case of Kevin Spacey. Last July, the “House of Cards” actor was found not guilty in London of nine charges following allegations of sexual harassment by four men. The abuse took place between 2001 and 2013, when he was director of the Old Vic theater in London. Although he also won his case against Anthony Rapp, in October 2022, Kevin Spacey came out of all these cases completely cleared. However, this May 6th and 7th, a new documentary reboots the machine. Titled: Spacey unmasked, and airing on Britain’s Channel 4, this new production gives voice to 10 new men who accuse the actor of sexual harassment. 9 of them are testifying for the first time.
Career in exchange for sexual favors
As reported Variety , all first link a certain way of doing things. According to these new suitors, Kevin Spacey lured them with the promise of helping them with their careers. Instead, he had to indulge in some sexual favors that could take place anywhere from his apartment to film sets, including the Old Vic, the theater where he served as director. “If you don’t pay the price for sexual favors, you’ll have a decent career, but you won’t see your name in lights,” he allegedly told Scott. “I felt like I was looking at a soulless monster,” Daniel also says.
Another testimony concerns facts about a certain Greg, who was 16 years old at the time. According to her, the actor grabbed her penis when both of them were driving to a party in Los Angeles. “It was a very aggressive sexual gesture,” she explains to the camera. In his memory, the employer cornered him during the evening, begging him not to talk about it this time. Furthermore, according to other accounts, Kevin Spacey would have a penchant for young heterosexual men whom he liked to “turn around”, forcing them to deviate from their sexuality.
“So this is what Hollywood is like?”
A woman who worked as an AD on the set of a TV series House of cards, from 2013 to 2015, recalled that the person should be removed from the actor because of his very borderline behavior. “Some of the team felt really uncomfortable,” he said. One of them would catch Spacey’s eye. “He’s your boss, so if he comes up to you and wants to start a conversation, you have to,” he laments. Jesse, who collaborated with the actor on the 1999 film The Big KahunaIn turn, he told about inappropriate gestures, claiming that he was forcibly kissed.
Kevin Spacey was first publicly accused in 2017 after the explosion of the Me Too movement. After several cases were filed against him, he was found not guilty of all the charges against him. When the release of this new documentary was announced, he defended himself in a statement issued in response to the allegations against me… Channel 4 refused, claiming that it had 7 days to respond to the new anonymous and non-specific allegations. “a fair opportunity” for me to refute all the allegations against me,” he wrote.
And continue. “I will not sit back and let a one-sided ‘documentary’ attack me from a dying channel that is desperately trying to get ratings.” There is an appropriate channel to deal with the allegations against me, and it is not Channel 4 (…) When I had the time and opportunity to defend myself, the allegations were not verified and I was acquitted.” In the process, the latter thus awarded a filmed interview British journalist Dan Wotton, formerly of GB News. “I take full responsibility for my past behavior and actions, but I cannot and will not apologize to anyone who makes things up about me or exaggerates stories about me,” he said. An interview broadcast on social networks, lasting about one and a half hours.
Source: Le Figaro
