SKevin Spacey has been unemployed for almost exactly five years; He hasn’t acted in any more films, series or theater productions – apart from two obscure video messages he directed himself and a semi-documentary Croatian film in which he played President Franjo Tudjman. And everyone who now hopes that this will change soon, if only because it wasn’t a good five years, not for the series “House of Cards”, which was only half as scary without him, not for the cinema, which is so seductive and intelligent villain as badly needed – all those admirers have to be disappointed: Spacey won’t be back anytime soon.
The widespread news that he has been proven innocent does not quite accurately reflect the verdict of a jury in Manhattan: In less than an hour and a half, the jury found only that they found Kevin Spacey’s account of the facts more plausible than that of actor Anthony Rapp, who sued Spacey in a civil suit for forty million dollars in damages. It’s been 36 years since, on the occasion of a premiere on Broadway, Kevin Spacey gave the party in his New York apartment to which Rapp, then fourteen, was invited. Spacey touched him, pressed him, said Rapp. While Spacey’s attorneys point out that the scene, as Rapp described it, bears a striking resemblance to a scene from George Furth’s Precious Sons, the play Rapp starred in at the time. A piece in which Rapp is not only harassed and coerced by a grown man (in this case Ed Harris). But in which the child actor Rapp plays a child actor who dreams of a big performance. Frank Rich, then the New York Times theater critic, was enthusiastic about Anthony Rapp. And from the theater to the theater.
