Kevin Spacey Wants ‘To Get Back To Work’ Amid New Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Kevin Spacey hopes to show that he’s “listened,” “learned” and “got the memo” on Thursday in a rare interview with NewsNation just weeks after a new docuseries shared another set of sexual misconduct allegations against him.
“At a certain point, I just want to get back to work,” Spacey told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo.
The disgraced actor has faced a number of sexual misconduct accusations from several men since 2017 after Anthony Rapp told BuzzFeed that Spacey made a sexual advance on him when he was 14.
A New York jury found Spacey not liable in Rapp’s $40 million sexual misconduct lawsuit against the actor back in 2022.
He was also acquitted of sexual assault charges in a London trial last July.
The latest allegations against Spacey, who recently took to social media to criticize the “Spacey Unmasked” docuseries, arrived before fellow actors such as Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson came to his defense in statements shared with British newspaper The Telegraph.
“Personally speaking, our industry needs him and misses him greatly,” Neeson said.
Spacey, who noted the impact of the #MeToo movement, told Cuomo that he thinks the pendulum has swung “very far in the direction of unfairness” for a “whole lot of people.”
“I mean, I know you had your own issues, and I’m glad to see that you’ve been offered a path back,” said Spacey in an apparent reference to Cuomo facing a sexual misconduct accusation himself in 2021.
“But we have to also be careful to make sure that the pendulum now doesn’t swing so far in the other direction.”
Cuomo noted that the “difference” with Spacey is he went to trial where U.S. and U.K. prosecutors assessed allegations against him.
“Some were dealt with civilly, and others may still be dealt with civilly, but