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Kevin Spacey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
774 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

Night Takes King was the name of our production company.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

No. I think power is an afterthought. What he loved more than anything was being able to predict how human beings would react. He was a behavioral psychologist. And he could know, like he was 17 moves ahead in a chess game, he could know if he did this at this moment, that eventually this would happen. He was able to be predictive and was usually right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

No. I think power is an afterthought. What he loved more than anything was being able to predict how human beings would react. He was a behavioral psychologist. And he could know, like he was 17 moves ahead in a chess game, he could know if he did this at this moment, that eventually this would happen. He was able to be predictive and was usually right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

No. I think power is an afterthought. What he loved more than anything was being able to predict how human beings would react. He was a behavioral psychologist. And he could know, like he was 17 moves ahead in a chess game, he could know if he did this at this moment, that eventually this would happen. He was able to be predictive and was usually right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

He knew just how far he needed to push someone to get them to do what he needed them to do in order to make the next step work. You've played a bunch of evil characters. Well, you call them evil. But the reason I say that, and I don't mean to be snarky about it, but the reason I say it that way is because I never judge the people I play.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

He knew just how far he needed to push someone to get them to do what he needed them to do in order to make the next step work. You've played a bunch of evil characters. Well, you call them evil. But the reason I say that, and I don't mean to be snarky about it, but the reason I say it that way is because I never judge the people I play.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

He knew just how far he needed to push someone to get them to do what he needed them to do in order to make the next step work. You've played a bunch of evil characters. Well, you call them evil. But the reason I say that, and I don't mean to be snarky about it, but the reason I say it that way is because I never judge the people I play.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

And the people that I have played or that any actor has played don't necessarily view themselves as this label. It's easy to say, but that's not the way I can think. I cannot judge a character I play and then play them well. I have to be free of judgment. I have to just play them and let the cards drop where they may. And let an audience judge.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

And the people that I have played or that any actor has played don't necessarily view themselves as this label. It's easy to say, but that's not the way I can think. I cannot judge a character I play and then play them well. I have to be free of judgment. I have to just play them and let the cards drop where they may. And let an audience judge.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

And the people that I have played or that any actor has played don't necessarily view themselves as this label. It's easy to say, but that's not the way I can think. I cannot judge a character I play and then play them well. I have to be free of judgment. I have to just play them and let the cards drop where they may. And let an audience judge.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I mean, the fact that you use that word is perfectly fine. That's your, you know. But it's like people asking me, you know, was I really from K-Pax or not? You know, it just entirely depends on your perspective.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I mean, the fact that you use that word is perfectly fine. That's your, you know. But it's like people asking me, you know, was I really from K-Pax or not? You know, it just entirely depends on your perspective.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I mean, the fact that you use that word is perfectly fine. That's your, you know. But it's like people asking me, you know, was I really from K-Pax or not? You know, it just entirely depends on your perspective.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I absolutely believe that Wandering around in someone else's ideas, in someone else's clothes, in someone else's shoes, teaches you enormous empathy. And that goes to the heart of not judging. And I have found that I have been so moved by, I mean, look, let's, yes, you've identified the darker characters. But I've played Clarence Darrow three times. I've played a play called National Anthems.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I absolutely believe that Wandering around in someone else's ideas, in someone else's clothes, in someone else's shoes, teaches you enormous empathy. And that goes to the heart of not judging. And I have found that I have been so moved by, I mean, look, let's, yes, you've identified the darker characters. But I've played Clarence Darrow three times. I've played a play called National Anthems.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I absolutely believe that Wandering around in someone else's ideas, in someone else's clothes, in someone else's shoes, teaches you enormous empathy. And that goes to the heart of not judging. And I have found that I have been so moved by, I mean, look, let's, yes, you've identified the darker characters. But I've played Clarence Darrow three times. I've played a play called National Anthems.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I've done movies like Recount. I've done films like The Ref. I've done films in which that doesn't exist in any of those characters, those qualities. Pay it forward. And so it is incredible to be able to embrace those things that I admire and that are like me and those things that I don't admire and aren't like me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I've done movies like Recount. I've done films like The Ref. I've done films in which that doesn't exist in any of those characters, those qualities. Pay it forward. And so it is incredible to be able to embrace those things that I admire and that are like me and those things that I don't admire and aren't like me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I've done movies like Recount. I've done films like The Ref. I've done films in which that doesn't exist in any of those characters, those qualities. Pay it forward. And so it is incredible to be able to embrace those things that I admire and that are like me and those things that I don't admire and aren't like me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

But I have to put them on an equal footing and say, I have to just play them as best I can and not decide to wield judgment over them.