Kevin Spacey Fowler, an American actor, spanned a career of 30 years covering films, television, video games, and theatre. He began his film career in the late 1980s after small parts in the Mike Nicholas films Heartburn (1986) and Working Girl (1988 ). Some of the highlighting roles Spacey has played include the movie Superman Returns (2006), Margin Call (2011), and Baby Driver (2017).
Spacey has scores of accolades in his career, including a Tony Award, A British Academy Film Award, two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Few years ago, Spacey made headlines after being accused of multiple s*xual assault charges.
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The Trial Begins: Charges Against Kevin Spacey
Spacey’s admirable reputation was disintegrated when it was discovered on October 29, 2017, that actor Anthony Rapp put forward allegations against Spacey who made a s*xual advance toward him at the age of 14, and Spacey, 26, while both were attending a party. After Rapp’s accusations came to light, fifteen other accusations were put against Spacey by different individuals claiming similar instances of abuse.
Boston anchorwoman Heather Unruh accused Spacey of buying her then 18 years old son alcohol and then groping him. Fillmmaker Tony Montana, actor Roberto Cavazos, Richard Dreyfuss’s son Harry, and eight people who had worked on the television series House Of Cards, in which Spacey played a leading role which solidified him a megastar, also spoke up against him.
Kevin Spacey Claims To Have “Lost Everything”
The tearful actor said his world exploded after s*xual abuse allegations against him emerged in 2017 leading him to lose everything he held dear. Kevin Spacey’s $6.5 million earnings from The House Of Cards were gone as he was removed from the Netflix series. He was, at that time, earning $500,000 for each episode. Netflix also planned to make a Gore Vidal biopic with Spacey playing the lead role, but that too hit shelved. Spacey was also being kept away from endorsements, which he wasn’t happy about and stated that he had suffered a lot throughout the trial he has faced.
Due to the s*xual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey, the Netflix series The House Of Cards was set to wrap up as Spacey’s character. The assault matter tangled the plan and lead the writer to re-write the entire show without Spacey. Netflix also severed ties with Spacey’s other projects, including a movie about the late author Gore Vidal.
Netflix, which aired the show The House Of Cards, earned a whopping amount from the show and all thanks to Spacey then being the main character. It spent $39 million on the content to make it a big hit, including the megastar Spacey. But unfortunately, the last season was aired without Kevin Spacey due to headlines made under the accusations he faced during that period of time.
The House Of Cards is available to stream on Netflix.
Source: CNN
