Late October 2017, the Me Too movement was underway. Harvey Weinstein had been outed as a serial rapist and predator of dozens (if not hundreds) of women. Other men were being called out as predators too. Kevin Spacey was one of them, and much like Weinstein, we were expecting his name to come up. I’m not sure many people expected Anthony Rapp to so eloquently describe Spacey’s attempt to seduce him/molest him when Rapp was only 14 years old though. In the wake of Rapp’s story, dozens of Spacey’s victims came forward, publicly and privately to producers on House of Cards. Spacey was fired, and he’s under investigation in a lot of cities. He “went dark” months ago and we haven’t heard much.
Well, Guy Pearce has a short story he’d like to tell you about Kevin Spacey. Spacey and Pearce worked together on one of my favorite movies of all time, LA Confidential. That came out in 1997, when Spacey was a huge deal – he had just gotten an Oscar for The Usual Suspects, and everyone wanted to work with him. Guy Pearce says that, no surprise, Spacey was “handsy” with him on the set.
Guy Pearce shocked an Australian TV audience when he revealed disgraced actor Kevin Spacey was a “handsy guy” on the set of “LA Confidential.” The “Memento” star, 50, starred alongside Spacey in the 1997 film based on James Ellroy’s novel, and suggested he was a little too full-on.
Speaking to Andrew Denton on the chat show “Interview,” Pearce said of Spacey: “Yeah … yeah. Tough one to talk about at the moment. Amazing actor; incredible actor. Mmm. Slightly difficult time with Kevin, yeah.” He added: “He’s a handsy guy. Thankfully I was 29, and not 14.”
As I kept saying throughout the months of revelations about Spacey, his abusive behavior was an open secret among journalists and actors for decades. Gabriel Byrne said that Spacey even assaulted someone as they worked on The Usual Suspects too, and it all got hushed up. There’s a point to be made about how successful white men who are abusive predators get their crimes “hushed up” with ease. But there’s something else to all of these Spacey stories – so many of his victims were men with less power than Spacey, and they didn’t speak out because they were embarrassed, because it’s not “supposed to happen” to men or boys, etc.
Also: I keep forgetting that Guy is with Melisandre now!!
Photos courtesy of WENN, Warner Bros.
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