Kevin Spacey
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard Jun 2024
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And so somewhere in the 60s and into the 70s, My father fell in with groups of people and individuals, pretend intellectuals, who started to give him reasons why he was not successful as a white Aryan man in the United States.
And I cannot tell you the amount of times as a young boy that my father would sit me down and lecture me for hours and hours and hours about his fucked up ideas of America, of prejudice, of white supremacy. And thank God for my sister who said, don't listen to a thing he says, he's out of his mind. And even though I was young, I knew everything he was saying was against people and I loved people.
My best friend, Mike, who's still my close friend to this day, I was afraid to bring him to my house because I was afraid that my father would find out he was Jewish or that my father would leave his office door open and someone would see his Nazi flag or his pictures of Hitler or Nazi books or what he might say. So...
when I found theater in the eighth grade and debate club and choir and festivals and plays and everything I could do to participate in that wouldn't make me have to come back home, I did. And I've had to reconcile who he became because the gap between that man who was in the U.S. Army as a medic and the man he became, I could never fill that gap.
But then at the same time, I've had to look at my mother and say, She made excuses for him. Oh, he just needs to get it off his chest.
So while on the outside, I would say, oh yeah, my mother loved me, but she didn't protect me. So was the, was all the stuff that she and all of the attention and all the love that I felt, was that because I became successful and I was able to fulfill an emptiness that she'd lived with her whole life with him?
I don't know, but I've had to ask myself those questions over these last years to try to reconcile that for myself.
I don't have any memory of that. I was in a program and they were showing us... An experiment that they'd done with psychologists and mothers and fathers and their children. And the children were anywhere between six months and a year, sitting in a little crib. And the exercise was this. Parents are playing with the baby right there, toys, yadda yadda, baby's laughing.
And then the psychologists would say, stop. And the parent would go like this. And you would then watch for the next two and a half, three minutes, this child trying to get their parents' attention in any possible way. And I remember when I was sitting in this theater watching this, I saw myself. That was me. screaming and reaching out and trying to get my parents' attention. That was me.
And that was not something I'd ever remembered before, but I knew what that baby was going through.
I heard so many different reactions from politicians about House of Cards. Some would say, oh, it's not like that at all. And then others would say, it's closer to the truth than anyone wants to admit. And I think I fall down on the side of that idea.
Well, in Frank's case, all you have to do is tell him to look into the camera and he'll tell you.
I'd love for you to just look into the camera and tell us what's really going on, what you really feel about blah, blah, blah. That's a good technique.
So there's a lot more that I want to be challenged by, be inspired by.
You know, it's been interesting because, you know, we're going back, we're talking. And, you know, it's nice to go back every now and then. But I'm focused on what's next.
And I believe that forgiveness and I believe that redemption are beautiful things. I mean, look, don't forget, I live in an industry in which there is a tremendous amount of conversation about redemption from a lot of people who are very serious people in very serious positions who believe in it. I mean, that guy who finally got out of prison, he was wrongly accused.
That guy who served his time and got out of prison. We see so many people saying, let's find a path for that person. Let's help that person rejoin society. But there is an odd situation. If you're in the entertainment industry, you're not offered that kind of a path. And I hope that the fear that people are experiencing will eventually subside and common sense will get back to the table.
Listen, if it would piss off Jack Lemmon again for me to win a third time, I absolutely think so, yeah.
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