Kevin Spacey
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard Jun 2024
Kevin Spacey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Really tell me how you feel.
No, I basically said that I didn't remember what this person, Anthony Rapp, was claiming from 31 years before. I had no memory of it. But if it had happened, if this embarrassing moment had happened, then I would owe him an apology. That was what I said. And then I said... And while I'm at it, I think I'll come out. And it was definitely not the greatest coming out party ever. I will admit that.
particular accusation and it's a very dramatic one it's a 40 million dollar lawsuit it's a big deal and the underage person was shown to be false well but you're you're melding two things together the lawsuit didn't happen until 2020 and then it didn't get to court until 2022 we're back in 2017 when it was just an accusation he made in buzzfeed magazine um look I was backed into a corner.
When someone says, you were so drunk you won't remember this thing happened, what's your first instinct? Is your first instinct to say this person's a liar? Or is your first instinct to go, what? I was, what? 31 years at a party I don't even remember throwing? Obviously, a lot of investigation happened after that in which we were then able to prove in that
in that court case that it had never occurred. But at the moment, I was sort of being told I couldn't push back, you have to be kind, you can't, I think even to me now, None of it sounds right. But I don't know that I could have said anything that would have been satisfactory to anybody.
I'm really surprised. I guess you haven't read a lot of media posts because I can't believe that's the actual worst one.
I don't think it's about the industry. I think it's about our time. I think it's the time that we're in, and people are very afraid. Just afraid, just a general fear. No, they're literally afraid that they're going to get canceled if they stand up for someone who has been. And I think it's, I mean, you know, we've seen this many times in history. This is not the first time it's happened.
Is that fair or no? I'll give you one very interesting, specific education that I got in doing Richard III and closing that show. at BAM in March of 2012, and two months later started shooting House of Cards. There is something called direct address. In Shakespeare, you have Hamlet talks to the world.
But when Shakespeare wrote Richard III, it was the first time he created something called direct address, which is the character looks directly at each person close by. It is a different kind of sharing than when a character is doing a monologue, an opening of Henry IV. And while there are some people who believe that direct address was invented in Ferris Bueller, it wasn't.
It was Shakespeare who invented it. So I had just had this experience every night in theaters all over the world. seeing how people reacted to becoming a co-conspirator, because that's what it's about. And what I tried to do, and what Fincher really helped me with in those beginning days, was how to look in that camera and imagine I was talking to my best friend.
Yeah. And there were many times when I suppose the writers thought I was crazy where I would see a script and I would see like this moment where this direct address would happen and say all this stuff. And I'd go, when we do a read through of the script, I go, I don't think I need to say any of that. And they were like, what do you mean? I said, well, the audience knows all of that.
All I have to do is look. They know exactly what's going on. I don't need to say a thing. So I was often cutting dialogue because it just wasn't needed. Because that relationship that I'd learned that I'd experienced doing Richard III was so extraordinary. where I literally watched people, they were like, oh, I'm in on the thing, and this is so awesome.
And then suddenly, wait, he killed the kids. He killed those kids in the tower. Oh, maybe it's not so. And you literally would watch them start to reverse their having had such a great time with Richard III in the first three acts. And I thought, this is going to happen in this show. If this intimacy,
can actually land um and i think just think there was some brilliant writing and we always attempted to do it in one take no matter how long something was we would try to do it in one take the direct addresses so there was never a cut when we went out on locations we started to then find ways to
That's the remarkable thing, is against their instincts and their better sense of what they should and should not do, they still rallied around Frank Underwood.
Well, in that production, that's absolutely true. Also, Richard is one of the weirder, weird, I mean by weird, it was an early play of Shakespeare's. And he's basically never offstage. I mean, I remember when we did the first run-through, I had no idea what the next scene was every time I came offstage. I had no idea what was next.
They literally had to drag me from one place to another, say, now it's the scene with Hastings, now it's the scene... But I now understand these wonderful stories that you can read in old books about Shakespeare's time, that actors... grabbed Shakespeare around the cuff and punched him and threw him against the wall and said, you ever write a part like this again, I'm going to kill you.
And that's why in later plays, he started to have a pageant happen and then a wedding happen. And the main character was offstage resting because the actor had said, you can't do this to us. There's no breaks. And it's true. There's very few breaks in Richard III. You're on stage most of the time.
I certainly can't take credit for Shakespeare having written something that is funny, or Bo Willimon and his team to have written something that is funny, is fundamentally funny. It just depends on how I interpret it. That's one of the great things why we love... In a year's time, we can see five different Hamlets. We can see four Richard III's. We can see two Richard II's.
That's part of the thrill that we don't own these parts. We borrow them and we interpret them. And what Ian McKellen might do with a role could be completely different from what I might do. because of the way we perceive it. And also, very often in terms of going for humor, it's very often a director will say, why don't you say that with a bit of irony?
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