{"id":531338,"date":"2026-07-03T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531338\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:50:09","slug":"yours-for-just-228-a-kevin-spacey-stainless-steel-gold-tone-fourth-of-july-adversity-ring-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531338\/","title":{"rendered":"Yours for just \u00a3228: a Kevin Spacey stainless steel gold-tone Fourth of July \u2018adversity ring\u2019 | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

America\u2019s 250th anniversary celebrations are not exactly going to plan. A wealth of acts have pulled out<\/a> of semiquincentennial concerts. An mock-up of Donald Trump\u2019s planned Triumphal Arch at the Great American State Fair is visibly oozing. Some of Disney\u2019s celebratory Americana apparel range was found to have been made in China. But, as ever, things could be worse. After all, you could have chosen to spend the anniversary wearing a Kevin Spacey ring.<\/p>\n

Because, in a sentence that nobody could have ever expected to read, Kevin Spacey is selling<\/a> a special edition signet ring to commemorate America\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n

Shopping news \u2026 Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood in House Of Cards. Photograph: David Giesbrecht\/AP<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, if you have \u00a3110 (\u00a3228 if you want it personalised) and are prepared to wait three months for delivery, then you \u2013 yes, you! \u2013 can be the proud owner of a \u201cgold-tone\u201d stainless steel ring that not only says \u201cI love America\u201d but also \u201cI am willing to overlook numerous complaints about Kevin Spacey\u2019s sexual impropriety.\u201d The ring bears the legend Per Ardua, Ad Astra (\u201cThrough adversity, to the stars\u201d), which is not only the motto of the RAF (a weird choice for a ring commemorating America\u2019s independence) but also seems to be about Kevin Spacey\u2019s belief that he will have a credible career again. It also has a giant \u201cFU\u201d on it, because of course it does.<\/p>\n

The FU stands for Frank Underwood, the character Spacey played on Netflix\u2019s House of Cards<\/a> until Netflix stopped employing him and an arbitrator ordered him to pay its production company $31m for violating the show\u2019s harassment policy (although in 2024 this was reduced to $1m). Again, this is a strange thing to put on a ring in the year 2026. Kevin Spacey has won two Oscars, for The Usual Suspects and American Beauty, and surely that represents the peak era of his career. And yet, rather than Keyser S\u00f6ze, he\u2019s referencing a television series that has become toxic from its association with him.<\/p>\n

Chris Rock has a routine about people liking music from the period when they lost their virginity, and a similar thing seems to have happened with Spacey. Even though nobody has really thought about House of Cards for at least a decade, it was nevertheless the last time that Kevin Spacey was professionally relevant, and so now he finds himself trapped in it. In the genuinely bewildering series of YouTube videos he posted at Christmas between 2018 and 2023, either alone or with Tucker Carlson<\/a>, he appeared as Frank Underwood. And now, once again, he is reaching back to the last time he had any power in order to sell a ring that surely nobody actually wants.<\/p>\n

But back to the ring. Anyone who wants one has until 22 July to buy one, because only a limited number have been produced. Small print on the ring\u2019s Shopify site states that they are being made to order, and this is why \u2013 along with what is described as \u201cKevin Spacey\u2019s active work schedule\u201d \u2013 they will take several months to arrive. If you would like the super deluxe personalised option, you have a maximum of 20 characters to play with, although \u201coffensive or inappropriate messages will not be accepted\u201d. Once it arrives, it is advised that you avoid water, moisture, perfumes, lotions, harsh chemicals and exercising.<\/p>\n

Only Spacey will know how well these rings will sell. There is a chance that the world might be underestimating the man\u2019s popularity, and soon the streets will be filled with people all publicly professing their support for him via the medium of ugly jewellery.<\/p>\n

And if the scheme is a success, it is only natural that other stars will see this as their way out of cancellation. Perhaps in years to come, lucky customers may one day we might even get to sport our very own decorative Harvey Weinstein anklet. Who could possibly say no to that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America\u2019s 250th anniversary celebrations are not exactly going to plan. A wealth of acts have pulled out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-531338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}