Liam Neeson and Sharon Stone demand Kevin Spacey be returned to Hollywood’s warm embrace
Stephen Fry and F. Murray Abraham also issued loud statements of support for Spacey this week, in the aftermath of Spacey Unmasked
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Multiple celebrities—Liam Neeson, Sharon Stone, Stephen Fry, and F. Murray Abraham, to name the main ones you’ve heard of—have issued a series of statements to U.K. paper The Telegraph today, demanding that actor Kevin Spacey be returned to Hollywood safe and sound, and freed from the terrifying prison of “Nobody wanting to cast him in stuff because he’s been the subject of sexual harassment and assault allegations for the last seven years.”
Spacey, Neeson wants us to know, “is a good man and a man of character,” and “our industry needs him and misses him greatly,” presumably including those parts of the industry that spent a great deal of money to digitally edit him out of their movies when the accusations against him surfaced back in 2017. Stone, meanwhile, asserted that she “can’t wait to see Kevin back at work.” She followed that with a slightly jumbled quote about aspiring actors accusing Spacey of sexual assaulting or harassing them, saying they “wanted and want to be around him,” and that “It’s terrible that they are blaming him for not being able to come to terms with themselves for using him and negotiating with themselves because they didn’t get their secret agendas.” (We do not know what this means, precisely, but she said it.)
Fry continued the messages of support for Spacey, who was recently the subject of a new TV documentary, Spacey Unmasked, which the man himself has denounced. Fry, at least, acknowledges the existence of possible impropriety, acknowledging that Spacey had been “both ‘clumsy’ and ‘inappropriate’ on many occasions.” (Sort of like the comedic persona of Lucille Ball, if she’d been accused by numerous young men of sexually inappropriate behavior over a long period of years.) But, Fry asserts, it’s wrong to “bracket him with the likes of Harvey Weinstein” and “to continue to harass and hound him, to devote a whole documentary to accusations that simply do not add up to crimes … how can that be considered proportionate and justified… Unless I’m missing something, I think he has paid the price.”
(Worth revisiting the basic facts here: Although Spacey has been accused of inappropriate behavior by a large number of men, he’s only faced major legal action twice, and come out the winner both times. Star Trek: Discovery star Anthony Rapp brought a lawsuit against Spacey in the United States in 2022, with Spacey ultimately being found non-liable on all charges. A criminal case in the U.K. ended with him being found non guilty on all charges in July of 2023.)
Okay, back to the demands: Abraham—who, it’s worth noting, departed Apple’s Mythic Quest after accusations of inappropriate on-set behavior of his own—rounded out the quartet of Spacey supporters, stating that “I vouch for him unequivocally. Who are these vultures who attack a man who has publicly accepted his responsibility for certain behaviour, unlike so many others? He is a fine man, I stand with him, and let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
So, there you have it, Hollywood casting directors: Hire Kevin Spacey, or Sharon Stone, Liam Neeson, Stephen Fry, and F. Murray Abraham—oh, and the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare company, who also piped up—will be very disappointed in you.
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Stephen wtf are you doing.
Yep. That’s the one that hurts me here. I love Stephen Fry. This is disappointing to see from him.
Well, he’s been super supportive of JK Rowling this whole time. This is really just a lateral move.
Oof. I didn’t realize that. Of course, given Stephen has done the audiobooks for so long, unfortunately I guess I should have seen that one coming.
As seems to be the case with this article, he was at least slightly measured in his response re: Rowling. But he falls prey to the bad faith both-sidesism that allowing trans folks to “live full, accepted lives, according to their terms, in society” is somehow at odds with women having “all the rights and dignities that they demand.” That’s the false premise that Rowling’s whole *ahem* House of Cards is built upon.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/stephen-fry-jk-rowling-trans-b2228642.html
Imagine if, instead of trans people, Rowling was going off about how unsafe she felt with black people using the same restroom as her and Stephen Fry said I have black friends and what she’s saying is hurting them, but she’s my friend and I don’t think she means any harm. Still measured?
Measured compared to the full throated support she’s received from others, yeah. To be clear, I’m not defending his position, or hers. I think I even said that his argument was based on the false premise that trans rights are somehow at odds with women’s rights.
I guess maybe I’m just in the bargaining stage of mourning my high estimation of Fry that I’d held until very recently.
Trans rights ARE at odds with women’s rights. Female prisons and sports come to mind.
Ain’t no maybe about it, sadly
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-apologises-unreservedly-for-claiming-sex-abuse-survivors-should-grow-up-and-stop-pitying-themselves-a6983651.html
What should be done to him for this despicable transgression? He must suffer for this
Give it a rest lol
OK that settles it. Fry must be hunted. The most dangerous game!
Should Fry be jailed? Shot? He’s literally pure evil though right we can agree on that
I get Stephen Fry confused with Stephen Merchant for no good reason. I think Merchant is pretty funny so at first I was bummed. But since I don’t know much about Fry (and now I don’t want to), I felt better quickly.
It amazes me that Stephen Fry can’t figure out why people might not want to see Kevin Spacey in a movie nowadays
Sorry, I got hung up on Sharon Stone demanding welcome into a warm embrace, with which I’m glad to assist…can someone summarize for me?
You got the important bits.
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As things stand, Kevin Spacey has thus far been repeatedly found not guilty of anything. Now, you may disagree with that, and that’s fine. There’s plenty of smoke. Maybe there’s some fire there too.
If we’re going to run by the generally accepted Western standard of “innocent until proven guilty” however, then there’s no reason why Spacey should be shamed out of working, nor should friends of his be embarrased about his ability to do so.
“Innocent until proven guilty” just means the jury should only vote guilty if they think there’s no reasonable doubt about it. Literally no one else in the world but those twelve people is under any obligation to consider it. And if anyone wants to argue this, I’ll just ask: did you wait until Harvey Weinstein was officially found guilty before you assumed he was?
>Literally no one else in the world but those twelve people is under any obligation to consider it.True. But the presumption of innocence is not something that exists on its own as an unalterable fact of reality or law of nature. You can not ignore it or pretend it doesn’t exist and have it still function. It is a social construct that only exists as long as society promotes, nurtures, and extends it. If society functions generally a if it doesn’t exist, then it won’t exist. Not in the general public and not in the courtroom.
“Literally no one else in the world but those twelve people is under any obligation to consider it.” Thank you, Jimmy McGill. 😀 😀 :D“And if anyone wants to argue this, I’ll just ask: did you wait until Harvey Weinstein was officially found guilty before you assumed he was?” Can’t you come up with any better strawmen or red herrings, counselor…? 😀 😀 😀
“ generally accepted Western standard of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ however”That’s a legal standard that applies in a criminal court of law only. And to further clarify, it’s not *actually* innocent. It’s *presumed* innocent (by a jury or judge, if a bench trial).
I don’t really think he’s being shamed out of working. It’s just business. A movie studio worried people wouldn’t turn out to see a movie with him in it, so they replaced him. Netflix was concerned because eight different people working on House of Cards accused him of misconduct. Continuing to employ him would have been a terrible look and maybe even left them more open to a lawsuit about working conditions on the show.
Yeah, if anything, he’s been desperately trying to get back into show business. His personal sense of shame doesn’t even seem to exist, let alone be somehow preventing him from working.
Also, as a sidebar, he’s been accused of sexual abuse by upwards of 16 people. Those kinds of accusations are individually always tough to prove in court because they frequently occur when the abuser and victim were alone together, but collectively, that many eye-witness accounts of similar behavior would clear most people’s bar in most other situations. If seventeen different people told you your son’s ninth grade English teacher groped their kid, you’d transfer schools the next day at the very least.
Exactly. Hell, if sixteen people who don’t know one another and don’t have anything significant to gain from telling their story accused ME of doing the exact same crime on sixteen discrete occasions, I’d be fairly convinced I did it, even if I didn’t remember doing it.
I think the industry of acting and film/tv making is, and honestly SHOULD be, one of the most volatile. It means it will sometimes help those that aren’t innocent, and hurt those that are, but when so much of your business is built upon public perception, well, this is the way things go. And earnestly, if you are in that industry, it’s something you have to accept.
As things stand, you don’t have to be found guilty of a crime for employers to not want to work with you.
Yep. It’s a business.
Things can be gross and inappropriate even if they are somehow not criminal. Spacey seems to admit repeatedly that he was aggressive and handsy with men with questionable interest in his attention. Stephen Fry also confirms that. That’s enough to find yourself out of work.
I know it isn’t a popular opinion in blog comments, but I’m a few years younger than Spacey and also from the south. I realize this is a broad generalization, but a lot of what he has been accused was pretty normal for southern gay culture among men around his age and older. Maybe it was different in the north or out west — I don’t know —but in the southern United States there was a lot of playful groping of open individuals to see if they were interested, or at least that’s how some older men would flirt with me.Of course, times have changed and he should have adapted to the changing mores — he also shouldn’t have waited so long to come out — but I really don’t think he had any ill intent. That’s just how some extroverted gay men of a different generation would find a willing partner and I’m sure they found it extra exciting, if the object of their attention leaned toward straight.
Holy fuck. Just because groping is really common where you’re from doesn’t mean it’s okay. It means where you’re from is fucked up.Also, lots and lots and fucking lots of straight dudes groping too.
Well, I just learned he’s not actually from the south and just played southern a lot, so in the words of Emily Litella, “Never mind”.
Maybe he’s just really method about his approach to southern characters
None of that is okay dude. That’s like referring to ass slapping in the work place and saying “nahhh that’s just how men of that Era show they’re great full!” Not okay then not okay now. If some people were scared to complain about it back then that’s a shame for them but that’s just not okay behavior. That’s behavior of a child.
Let’s hear ur defense of ass slapping next tho.
No it isn’t
Gross dude. Don’t touch people without consent. We all learn that when we’re like five
I’m on older straight man from the south, and it’s true no matter your orientation. Alabama STILL doesn’t want to outlaw 14-year-olds getting married. It’s always been gross, it’s always gone on, and being from the south is a continuous embarrassment.
The part where some of his victims like Anthony Rapp were allegedly very underage is problematic no matter how common. Even if he was acting out things he had seen or had done to him, that doesn’t change that it can lead to people not wanting to support him or watch him or work with him. Such are the consequences. We can recognize his behavior as inappropriate (especially with allegations that he was told to stop and didn’t) and not criminal (and yes, that can torpedo a career).
shut the fuck up, moron
He’s been found not guilty and hasn’t spent a second in jail as far as I can tell. So best case scenario is he’s a toxic predator who has managed to just barely skirt the legal boundaries of multiple crimes from multiple accusers. So while he may not be “guilty” in the eyes of the law, he’s certainly a liability. What’s the answer here, “the law” is going to force Hollywood producers to start giving him roles? If I’m a producer, director, showrunner, whatever, and I’m genuinely trying to piece together a functional and safe work environment for my crew — or shit if I just don’t want the PR nightmare of dealing with this freakshow — I’m going to now be mandated by law to give Spacey a part?
There is no constitutional right to a job, or for an employer to hire you just because you haven’t been convicted of anything in a court of law. And he doesn’t have to have been convicted for me to believe the victims. The so-called “justice system” rarely provides any. All this stuff does is make me think worse of Liam Neeson, Sharon Stone and Stephen Fry. (I already thought F Murray Abraham was a creep.)
For a minute I thought you meant the kid from Futurama and was really confused
The world isn’t a court. Just because he wasn’t found guilty of a crime, doesn’t mean that people have to be forced to work with him. There is no law against him working, but there are enough great actors out there without his baggage. Why should studios take that chance?
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I, too, have never been convicted of crimes. Where’s my right to be a movie star?
That’s not what “innocent until proven guilty” means
I mean, as things stand, O.J. never committed murder and Harvey Weinstein’s conviction was overturned. It doesn’t mean I would want to have worked with either of them.Not to mention that people are fired every day for behavior that is nowhere near illegal and that companies can be held liable for the actions of their employees especially when there is a known history of certain behavior even if that behavior hasn’t been proven in a criminal court (or isn’t itself criminal).
Harvey Weinstein’s convictions in New York were overturned. He’s still a convicted rapist according to the state of California.
“Innocent until proven guilty” is why he isn’t in jail. It doesn’t obligate anyone to work with him. It doesn’t obligate me to watch any of his stuff. Thanks for playing.
Multiple accusers of someone don’t end up dead without that person being involved.
““innocent until proven guilty”” Haha, diddler-lover. Now give us a lesson on free speech.
I definitely agree with the assertation that “not all sexual misconduct things are equal” as far as the statement that it’s not fair to lump him in with Weinstein. Reminds me of that Aziz Ansari story that was basically he got drunk with a first date, they got naked but she later decided she was uncomfortable and decided to go to social media with it. She might have been a little (or a lot) star struck and he used that to his advantage, but didn’t promise her a job for a blowjob or anything. Most of the accusations about Spacey as I understand them seem to be along the same lines, though with much younger men (which really tracks with a lot of Hollywood people whether it’s men or women). That didn’t seem to hurt Seinfeld’s career any, so unless Spacey was telling those men he’d get them work if they had sex with him I’m not sure I see the issue. Most relationships have at least a little ‘power imbalance’ to them—it’s holding that imbalance over the other person’s head or using it against them that’s gross.Also, we all know O.J. did it no matter what the criminal trial decided, right?
He can work. Just not in Hollywood. Fuck him.
I just figured there isn’t much of an audience today for shows with Kevin Spacey in a lead role. No one really wants to watch him, let alone work with him.
That has to change first before he’s “returned to Hollywood’s warm embrace”.
If there’s serious money to be made then of course they’ll do it, otherwise it’s just not worth it to the bottom line. Simplistic, perhaps cynical, but true.
Stay tuned for a summer blockbuster starring Spacey, Neeson, Stone, and Fry. :/
Ocean’s Four?
Produced by Ben Shapiro
Well that’s just it nobodies stopping him from starring in a film. Nobodies gonna see it. But nobody is blocking him from doing that. This is like if people banded together to appeal to the Popular Kids in School if someone can be popular again. Silliness. We just don’t like him.
Yep. For all that people like to point out Mel Gibson’s “comeback,” his post-scandal career hasn’t exactly lit the world on fire. I guess we’ll see how the sequel to The Passion of the Christ does, though FFS am I not ready for the torrent of awful that will be that “discourse.”
>Mel Gibson’s “comeback,” his post-scandal career hasn’t exactly lit the world on fireConsidering he has made movies that have won Oscars and numerous other awards, I don’t see how anyone could think he has been anything other than a resounding success.
That was prior to his meltdown. Apocalypto was the dividing line. I’m talking from The Beaver onward. It isn’t like we count Louie as being part of Louie C.K.’s post-scandal career.
Gibson’s post-scandal career is something 99.99999% of people working in the entertainment industry would sell their soul for. Ignoring the “sugar tits” incident of 2006 and starting the clock in 2010 (when he was recorded tossing around racial slurs while wishing sexual assault on the mother of his child), he has:Been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director (for Hacksaw Ridge)Starred in 20 filmsWorked with Jodi Foster, Will Ferrel, Mark Wahlberg, not to mention everyone who is part of the Expendeble franchise (Sylvester Stalone, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc)Directed three films (including the aforementioned Hacksaw Ridge), produced three films, and written two
Starred in a miniseries based on the insanely popular John Wick franchiseIf he’s in the dog house it’s a mighty nice dog house.
There was Hacksaw Ridge, though. It won a couple of tech Oscars, but was nominated for Best Picture among others.
He directed Hacksaw Ridge and was nominated for an Oscar for it, well after he drunkenly fought with cops and screamed that he hoped his child’s mother would be raped by a pack of (ethnic slur)s.
Not saying he should absolutely definitely have a career or anything, but to be honest looking at his filmography over the last few years Hackshaw Ridge (assuming that’s the one you’re talking about) is kind of looking like a rare blip outside his usual straight to video/DVD/streaming/whatever cheapo filmmaking outfit will have him haunting grounds. That, a Will Ferrell sequel and the villain in the third Expendables film being his highest profile features in about a decade don’t exactly scream “top of the world” to me.
Are you fucking kidding me he’s making a sequel? Hopefully he casts a different Jesus this time around since ol’ Jim is getting long in the tooth….not that I’ll see it—I love blood in horror movies but can do without it in my biblical re-enactments thank you very much. Though from what I understand the first one was basically two hours of torture porn that you already know the ending to.
Hopefully the blooper reel will be a Criterion extra.
they have every right to hire him.and i have every right to never watch anything he’s in ever again.your call, hollywood.
Then I’ll watch everything he’s in twice just to make up that loss. 3 times for the hell of it.
Don’t you get tired of this endless virtue signaling uptight moralistic bullshit dude. It sounds so fake and forced
He has two film projects in pre-production, so some companies are apparently willing to hire him. You made a lot of fun assumptions though
Yikes.
On fuckin’ bikes.
Liam Neeson had almost managed to get people to forget about that time he talked about walking down the street trying to beat up black guys with a baseball bat. Don’t drag yourself into the negative spotlight for Kevin Spacey of all people, my dude!
I at least appreciate that Neeson was ok making fun of himself on Atlanta:Sorry that’s…recorded off a tv screen for some reason.
I’ve been reallt rooting for Neeson to turn it around. That cameo on Atlanta. The fact that he’s starring in the new Naked Gun. This is just too bad right here
Definitely agree. I don’t know why he’s chosen this hill to die on but I’m praying he reverses course soon
I give the guy a lot of leeway because he lost his wife tragically and that will absolutely send someone to places where they come out looking different.
I’ve had a lot of loss in my life and I will say it has absolutely made me feel like I shouldn’t police my words nearly as much, because, like…fuck it, ya know? And if I don’t get my intention across well enough the first time, hopefully people allow me to get there eventually.
The cameo on Derry Girls was cool too.
I think Neeson got a bad rap with that particular incident, although I can’t speak to him vouching for Spacey.It was nice to see him making light of it on Atlanta, because honestly, while the behavior he described was obviously atrocious and reprehensible, that was actually the whole point – Neeson is saying he, in the past, acted awfully and horribly and was denouncing his previous behavior. If we don’t allow people to acknowledge and address their previous bad behavior and beliefs, how do we expect them to grow and change? It feels like Neeson was revealing something with the intent of shining a light on something awful in his past and recognizing that it was the wrong thing to do, and in the cultural illiteracy of the day, he was jumped on as if he was describing his current beliefs when he was explicitly doing the opposite.
Right. Sure. Whatever you say. Chad.
What
Translation: i have nothing intelligent to say to add to the conversation so i resort to name calling.
He can keep it between himself and his therapist, nobody wants to hear stories of white people running around trying to kill black people
Right, celebrities doing interviews should just say shit like “I thoroughly enjoyed the movie I was a part of that you are interviewing me for. I have nothing further!” “Nobody wants to hear” okay so…don’t hear it? Don’t read about it? He’s not barging into your home yelling at you.One could argue that “stories of white people running around trying to kill black people” are actually quite important to hear, since it’s something that has historically happened and continues to happen and plugging your ears to these stories doesn’t make them go away.
Agree, but man he really should have rehearsed and workshopped the telling of that story a few times before going live with it
He told it because he wanted a pat on the back for being so much more enlightenedIf we want stories about white people’s racism we should be talking to the victims of racism not the (would-be) perpetrators
Minus the context, I’d 100% agree. But…he described this as a brutish response he had as a young man after a female friend was sexually assaulted. That in his rage he wanted “payback.” Not defending that emotional response, but it’s not simply “running around trying to kill black people.” He also clarified that he had brought it up as an example of how assault can bring out the worst in anyone and that in retrospect he was frightened by his younger self’s reaction (granted, this was during a presser about one of his forgettable revenge movies, and yeah, I too probably would’ve kept my “dark side” anecdote to myself in that circumstance).That said, him weighing in on Spacey is pretty ick.
Wtf are you on about? Neeson was not proud of that incident and made a whole fucking point of his own self-reflection and growth as a person.
Okay, but you guys get to pay for any expensive reshoots and lawsuits if Kevin Spacey starts acting up again.
Maybe all these actors will show up in Spacey’s next cringeworthy Christmas video.
Kevin Spacey Presents The Star Wars Holiday Reboot!
I mean , he’s had practice
Oh I think they’re going to be regretting those shows of support before very long…
Oh yeah
Honestly this is such a stupid move by all of them, PR-wise, that the only logical conclusion I can arrive at is that they all have scandals that haven’t broken yet and are hoping for reciprocal support when the time comes.
Maybe PR is bs and people rightfully don’t care about the mob any more?
These are all rich celebrities in their 60s and 70s. They don’t care what you think about their “PR move” lol
The people who employ them care, dippy
No they’re not. This comment section isn’t real life. They’re all rich and famous. Nobody cares about this shit anymore bro
It’s weird because it would have been the easiest thing in the world to not say anything in support of your “accused by sixteen men of sexual impropriety” friend
Well, Sharon Stone probably has the least to worry about ever being groped or pinned beneath Kevin Spacey.
It’s crazy considering how recently Stone’s been talking about abuse and coercion early in her career. It’s like Mia Farrow defending Polanski. The cognitive dissonance is unreal.
I think that’s arguably the core issue of the whole MeToo movement. Everyone is against the people who victimized them or their friends and sexual abuse in the abstract, but systemic change also requires people to stop trying to accuse the victimizers that they’re friends with, and that’s just a bridge too far for a lot of people.
This is why “I’m hella loyal to my friends and family!” always scans as “I’m not very principled” to me. In real world practice, it’s quite difficult to be both.
The problem there is that we’ve basically defined “loyalty” as “I enable all my friends’ and family’s worst impulses” and not “I have refused to give up on trying to help them become better people.” Like if you kill somebody, a loyal friend is the one who tries to get you to see why what you did was wrong, visits you in prison, and helps you work on getting your degree by mail.The guy who helps you hide the body is the cliche, but that guy is helping you make yourself and the world worse.
Damn, that was well put
Yah it reads like she’s calling the victims liars. Imagine if they were women instead of gay men she would not be publicly calling them liars. That is so…. dumb of her? I don’t know.
Given the amount of gross behavior that Stone has definitely been the target of by powerful Hollywood figures, especially early in her career, it’s disappointing to see her on this list, especially with what appears to be a victim-blaming take.
I’m stunned by how I think she’d be acting different if the victims were woman not gay men. Which is wild but that’s what this seems like..
Maybe she just went with the whole “Spacey has repeatedly been found not liable or innocent of wrongdoing in all courts of law” idea, which most sane people are happy with. Yet you so flagrantly condemn her and all of these people based on essentially nothing. Do you think this makes you a good person, to perform your virtue so constantly and in such a socially accepted and personally beneficial manner?
Oh my god kevin shut the fuck up
You were stunned by a hypothetical thought you had?
You’re a terminally online loser. It’s a free country and Stone can say whatever she likes. No one cares what you think
Isn’t she one of those “Woody Allen isn’t that bad a guy once you get to know him, he’s easy to work with” types?
Besides the obvious reasons, “our industry needs him and misses him greatly,”Really? Pretty sure if that was the case someone would have found a way to put him in a project.
Yeah, come on Liam Neeson – have you SEEN how many actors there are?! We’ve got PLENTY without Spacey.
He has projects coming up. So I guess someone did.
Is it easy to type with Kevin’s hand up your ass?
Weird because the entire history of Hollywood has been “well, we’re done with that guy, let’s get a new one” but Spacey that can’t do without? Hmmmm
Oh this is disappointing. I can understand a “leave him alone already” vibe after that doc considering he hasn’t been found guilty but calling for a return to Hollywood? And whatever Sharon Stone meant? Ughhh
Is Stone implying the victims are liars…. woof
Celebrities are royalty. They are uber-people and should be afforded the benefits such status demands. Poor little raped boys can get over it. Pussies.
Literally none of these dudes even alleged rape, let alone provided any evidence of said. You’re a fucking liar and an idiot
sarcasm fuckwit.
🖕🏻
Spacey tended to specialize in playing sleezy characters, or at least morally ambiguous ones. He’d be difficult to cast in the same kind of thing now that his personal reputation is tarnished.
Can’t Hollywood see how differently they’ve treated Spacey and someone like, oh, Mel Gibson?
I’ll say it because, why not… of all the “acclaimed actors” of recent decades, I always found Kevin Spacey the most overrated. He always gives the impression of an actor reading lines dramatically, rather than seeming like an actual person on screen.
Oh yes the classic “before this person was canceled and considered pure evil, I had the magical foresight to dislike their work!” trope. Repeated a million times in Twitter replies every single time any notable or famous person has been found to have done any real or perceived wrong in their entire life. “I knew it all along because I’m special!”
Nope, I knew it because when I first saw him in a movie (The Ref), I thought his performance was wooden. Nothing magical about it, or special about having an opinion, Snarky Internet Person.
Sorry honey but just like your daddy Kevin will never love you
I’ve liked him in things but he has a style and House of Cards was almost self-parody of The Kevin Spacey School of Acting
I think its a combo of the public hearing about the accusations, but not knowing he was not found guilty that is the problem with studios hiring him. Also insofar as Hollywood is concerned most people in the business only care about LOOKING like they care, but in reality they don’t give a damn. Remember these are the same types of people who have defended Roman Polansky for decades and he was/is a CONVICTED child molester. That alone tells you all you need to know.
Just like this entire comment section. Virtue signaling performative bullshit based on nothing.
Go choke on a DVD of Swimming with Sharks
Call me naïve, but I’m always stunned when the wise course of action in a given situation is to simply shut the fuck up and people choose not to. Like, absolutely no one was out here saying “gee, I wonder what Sharon Stone thinks about Kevin Spacey” and yet she went out of her way to broadcast her idiot thoughts about it.
I think it was Will Rogers that said “Never miss a good opportunity to shut up”
Well if the man who announced that he at one point went out of his way to try to hunt down and murder any black man he could find thinks Kevin is a good man it must be true.
Why don’t they make their own movies and cast him in them then?
F. Murray Abraham:
It’s simple…if any of those actors want to fund and produce a project, and cast Spacey, they are welcome to. But I don’t know why any studio would take the chance to hire him.
They already have. He has upcoming films in production.
LOL ok superfan
I’m guessing literally all of those people have a production company, maybe they should sign him up
“Who are these vultures who attack a man who has publicly accepted his responsibility for certain behaviour…”Ummm, has he? All I remember is deny deny deny.
I still love his previous work like I still adore watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but that doesn’t mean I will support any future work he does. Studios are free to cast him in whatever the want, I am free to never support any movie or show he’s a part of.I’m pretty certain studios will go with the side that makes them more money, and this is one of those rare instances where I’m pretty ok with this.
Dickhead
Eat a bag of mouse shit
Spacey is obviously kind of a dick even if he has somehow avoided the criminal stuff. But the ick factor kind of kills his chances. Nobody wants to think about that when he pops up on screen…and no one is going to risk their money investing in a film with that nasty baggage.
They already have you lazy moron. He has movies coming out
That no one but you will see
Sure, he has a “right to work” but studios have a right to not hire him if he is a PITA for whatever reason.If he were a woman he’d get the “difficult to work with” badge and that would be that.
He may be a dickhead but he hasn’t been found guilty in any of the charges laid against himIs there any sense in continuing his cancelation? Nah.
Hey, wait! O.J. was found not guilty too! What happened to his second chance?
Anyone? Hello? Is this thing on?
There are way too many “comments” about this. As in, what’s behind this sm stunt? Are there really that many stans for this guy?
Maybe they’re just friends with him? These are rich and famous people in their 60s and 70s. They don’t stan him, they know him personally and have for decades lol. Dumbass
Your mouth is permanently filled with Spacey’s dick huh?
It’s terrible that they are blaming him for not being able to come to terms with themselves for using him and negotiating with themselves because they didn’t get their secret agendas.” (We do not know what this means, precisely, but she said it.)translation: They played the casting couch game and cried assault when it did not lead to any career advancementComing from an actor who was widely rumored to know the casting couch well back in her day.
Mel Gibson, Johnny Depp, Woody Allen and Kevin Spacey are free to work as much as they can and I have the freedom to avoid anything that has their name in the credits.
I have not done any deep dives into the allegations but don’t all of them fall into the category of “highly-closeted famous actor came on to me in a creepy and unexpected way and was kind of an asshole as well but backed off when I let him know I wasn’t interested”? Were there any explicit (or implicit) “do this or you don’t get the part” or “do this and you’ll to a long way, kid”?As an actor, I have always enjoyed Spacey’s work. This feels a lot like Louis CK’s fall from grace plus unsuccessful lawsuits. I am curious whether this is another case of finding the artist disdainful while the art is something worth regarding.Thoughts?
Hard to say. Nothing at all of substance has been proven. There doesn’t appear to be much evidence either way. Spacey has prevailed in court every time.
Doesn’t mean he innocent