Kevin Spacey | Club Random with Bill Maher
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What topics do Bill and Kevin joke about when the interview begins?
while you were remodeling your backyard to make it more, you know, zen-y, we were remodeling our merch store to make it more random. We slapped our new logo on T-shirts, tie-dyes, hoodies, and hats, and all with premium printed labels. Look. I wasn't kidding. We have it because tags are like the junk mail of clothing. All merch is available exclusively at clubrandom.com. Once again, that's clubrandom.com.
If someone has a problem with you, why do they wait until they're sitting in front of a journalist and then they turn it into a story? Who did that?
I have to share with you something I've never said publicly. I guess we're telling tales out of school. We might as well... And is Kevin Spacey really here? He's really here. Wow. Man of his word. Thank you for having me. You kidding? Really? Yeah. Thank you so much. I can't wait to talk to you. I mean, I was so excited all day because... I don't see you. Obviously, there are reasons of an unpleasant nature that prevent you from being, but you know, for the longest time, you were just, I'll say this, I don't know if we could talk about it, obviously, punishment, crime, what fits, But like you are always a working actor for you to like lose Working you look like you always seem to know kind of guy who like loves to be on a set definitely like De Niro's like that, right?
Yeah, they just go from one day. That's why they do some shit.
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Because you'd rather work on some shit than not work, right?
You'd rather work on some shit, although, you know, when you start off, you know, no matter what the film or play or television thing is, you always think, oh, I'm going to try to do my best work and I'm going to believe in it. And, you know, every now and then you make a nine lives. What can you do?
What was that? Was that a bad movie you were in?
Oh, yeah.
Nine lives?
Yeah, I turn into a cat. Where in your career was this? It was at a point where I was willing to make a movie just for money. Because you were very bankable. I was a bankable star, and I had no idea that a movie about a cat... You had done Usual Suspects. Oh, yeah, this is after House of Cards. Oh, I see. This was a movie that I never knew that a movie about a cat could be such a dog. You know what I'm saying?
How does Kevin describe the allegations, court outcomes, and ‘show business jail’?
Is that how you went and promoted it?
Yeah, I know. There was a time when, I mean, poor Bruce Willis now in bad shape, and I knew him a long time ago pretty well for a little while when he was first out here and he hung out at the comedy clubs. But there was a time when I would see, when I would watch movies in hotels. That's where I see all my movies. For a while, that stopped. But it used to be a real treat in a hotel room because they would have the first run movies. But you'd buy it, of course. It wasn't, and so like. So you weren't watching the porno? Is that what you're saying? There was moments when I did break down. But it kind of sucked because if you can't fast forward, Right, yes, that's true. You mean get past the story points. Right, this is so long ago there were story points.
Oh, I see. That's not how porn is today.
But I'm saying you watch Forrest Gump on a hotel television. Is that what you're saying?
That would not have been my choice. Oh, I see. What I was saying about working for horror movies, not horror, whore. Whore, yeah. Yeah. There was a time when you could see Bruce Willis. As you scrolled through the movies, there would be, at one time, three or four you'd never heard of with him. And he always had a very small part. I'm sure they shot it in a week or less. But it was a tribute to how big his name is, that you could slap him on there to all these movies, and they would go straight to the video, but somebody was making money.
I was just in the car with Evan Lowenstein, who I know you know, Evan and Jaron.
A long time.
We were just talking about the fact that Sam Jackson, when I think about how many movies Sam Jackson has been in, And a number of them were films that, you know, he must have worked a couple of days and they paid him a shitload of money to say motherfucker or whatever it is that they wanted him to say.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What topics do Bill and Kevin joke about when the interview begins?
0:00–2:35
2
How does Kevin describe the allegations, court outcomes, and ‘show business jail’?
2:35–52:40
3
What does Kevin say about rebuilding his life, therapy, and audience reactions in Europe?
52:40–57:58
4
How did social media and the Martin Scorsese controversy shape reactions?
57:58–58:55
5
What are Kevin Spacey's views on coming out, Hollywood double standards, and handling scandal?
58:55–1:03:05
6
Which classic showbiz stories and mentorship memories do they share about Carson, Leno and Buddy Hackett?
1:03:05–1:08:22
7
What projects, performances and plans does Kevin Spacey describe for his future?
1:08:22–1:49:41