{"id":274898,"date":"2025-11-21T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274898\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:04:07","slug":"extremely-powerful-people-want-to-put-kevin-spacey-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274898\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cExtremely powerful people\u201d want to put Kevin Spacey back to work"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the holiday season upon us once again, we must look cautiously toward the Yuletide for whatever gifts and horrors await. In years past, this has typically meant one of two things: Gifts from our friends and loved ones to make the coldest, darkest time of year a little warmer, or another vaguely threatening YouTube video from Kevin Spacey<\/a>, wherein he\u2019s allowed to be Frank Underwood, the president from his long-canceled TV series House Of Cards (and from which he was fired from for sexually harassing young male staffers<\/a>). Sometimes, the American public is so naughty that Santa brings us a video of Underwood being interviewed by Tucker Carlson. It remains up to jolly ol\u2019 Saint Nick to decide which we receive this year. Still, it sounds like Christmas is coming early for Mr. Spacey, who, despite being characterized in a new interview with The Telegraph<\/a> as \u201chomeless,\u201d is in touch with \u201cextremely powerful people\u201d who want to put him back to work. He\u2019s simply waiting for \u201csomeone who is in some position of enormous respect and authority\u201d to hire him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in touch with some extremely powerful people who want to put me back to work,\u201d Spacey tells Telegraph. \u201cAnd that will happen in its right time. But I will also say what I think the industry seems to be waiting for is to be given permission \u2013 by someone who is in some position of enormous respect and authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mind you, those powerful people do not include Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino, whom Mr. Spacey implores to contact his manager, Evan. If one called him, Spacey says they\u2019d be a hero like Kirk Douglas was for getting Dalton Trumbo\u2019s name on Spartacus. Trumbo was a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters blacklisted for refusing to name suspected communists before the House Un-American Activities Committee, whose career Douglas revived with Spartacus.<\/p>\n

\u201cKirk Douglas said, \u2018You know what, we get to play the hero in movies, but it\u2019s not that simple in life.\u2019 He was willing to stand up and say enough is enough,\u201d Spacey says. \u201cThe moment he did that, the blacklist was over. So, my feeling is if Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino call Evan [Lowenstein, Spacey\u2019s manager] tomorrow, it will be over. I will be incredibly honoured and delighted when that level of talent picks up the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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More than a dozen people accused Spacey of sexual assault and harassmen<\/a>t. The most public accusation came from actor Anthony Rapp, who claimed he was assaulted by Spacey as a 14-year-old in the \u201980s. Upon being accused, Spacey said he owed Rapp \u201cthe sincerest apology for what would have been inappropriate drunken behavior<\/a>.\u201d In 2022, a jury concluded that Spacey did not molest Rapp. The following year, a U.K. court found Spacey not guilty of nine charges of sexual assault, per Variety<\/a>. Spacey now says that he\u2019s living in hotels and Airbnbs, singing songs and telling stories at clubs in Tel Aviv and Cyprus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the holiday season upon us once again, we must look cautiously toward the Yuletide for whatever gifts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-274898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}