It is the cruel catch-22 of cancel culture that being innocent may afford no protection against being treated as guilty.
How long before Kevin Spacey is allowed to be uncancelled? Seriously, I’m curious. It has been almost seven years since Spacey had the leper’s bell hung around his neck. Is it to be a life sentence, or are the millions who relish this great actor’s performances to be allowed to see him back where he belongs, on stage and screen?
Even Channel 4 has to admit that if the allegations are true , nothing Spacey is accused of is actually criminal. As theatre critic and veteran journalist Libby Purves observed after watching the program, “Even to a straight, Christian, conventional old bat like me, I tell you that none of it seems worth bringing ruin on a human being.” Quite. I now feel immense compassion for Spacey, tinged with anger at the clear injustice.
He then went on to compound the damage from that notably inept statement by coming out as gay, something he had denied for years. Understandably, there was widespread outrage that Spacey appeared to have used his coming out to excuse a sex crime. I wonder if Spacey feels that the complaints against him were blown out of proportion on the rising tide of MeToo fury?
“I don’t know. But I would say this – when Anthony Rapp told his story , there were a number of people who came forward to tell another story because they felt so strongly that Anthony Rapp was telling the truth. The story must be true. Well, it isn’t true, and it wasn’t true. And there were other stories that followed that also weren’t true, or there were parts of them that were true, or they had been exaggerated or not happened at all.
“Those conversations have been really important because I’ve then been able to have those conversations with my therapist and try to get to the root of why did I do that. And to make sure that in work environments in the future, I never, ever put myself in a situation where I ever hurt anybody or my conduct is questionable. It’s upsetting that sometimes I behaved in ways that I will never behave in again.
Spacey says he watched an interview with Byrne. “It seemed to me that this is a person who has decided that she’s judge, jury, prosecutor. I mean, she actually talked about these things as if they’d actually happened. And we know that we’re going to present evidence that some of those individuals pursued me for years after they claimed that I had done some terrible thing.”, and accuses Spacey of touching him inappropriately on set in 2013.
Afterwards, the actor expressed the hope that this exoneration would mean he could finally work again. But this latest attack from Channel 4, almost calculated to derail a comeback, is too much. He is ready to break his silence and fight.Kevin Spacey Fowler was born in July 1959 to Thomas and Kathleen. He has an elder brother, Randall , and a sister, Julie Ann. In the documentary, Randy paints a horrifying picture of their father as a brutal Nazi sympathiser who sexually abused him.
Being secretive, unknowable, was a huge part of Spacey’s success as an actor, I think. In the ’90s, he enjoyed an amazing run of films:, which won him the Oscar for playing Lester Burnham, an advertising executive having a midlife crisis and sexually obsessing over his 16-year-old daughter’s best friend. Lester ends up being murdered by his in-the-closet, homophobic neighbour. As if the ghost of Thomas Fowler had come back to punish his son.
Note also that, however solemn the material, he’s almost never not funny. Comedy is always at the edge of things, a lightning flash of wit in the darkness. He is also a brilliant mimic, and acknowledged as one even in the business. It’s true that there are a lot of substantial figures in his industry now calling vocally for Spacey to be allowed to resume his career. They emailed me in the last couple of days.
“Kevin Spacey faced long court proceedings in the UK and was found, by the jury, to be innocent of all charges. But now, a Channel 4 documentary is urging viewers to believe that the accused is guilty, whatever a jury may have previously decided. “To bracket him with the likes of Harvey Weinstein, however, to continue to harass and hound him, to devote a whole documentary to accusations that simply do not add up to crimes … how can that be considered proportionate and justified? He hasn’t hidden away, he has given full-on interviews accepting and owning the mistaken and unacceptable behaviour of his past.
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