Kevin Spacey To Guy Pearce’s Accusation He Was “Targeted” On ‘L.A. Confidential’ Set: “Grow Up. You Are Not A Victim”
deadline.com“Guy, you need to grow up. You are not a victim.” That was Kevin Spacey‘s response in a video posted online to Guy Pearce‘s statements about Spacey’s behavior on the set of L.A.
Confidential in 1997. “Grow up. Did you also, by the way, tell the press that a year after we shot L.A. Confidential you flew to Savannah, Georgia while I was shooting Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil just to spend time with me?
Did you tell the press that, too? Or does that not fit into the ‘victim’ narrative that you have going?” asked Spacey. Pearce recently told Deadline’s sister publication THR that though he “wasn’t sexually assaulted or molested, I was made to feel uncomfortable” by Spacey during production.
He later alleged that, “I probably was a victim to a degree; I was certainly not a victim by any means to the extent that other people have been to sexual predators.” After he was found not liable in a 2022 lawsuit brought by Anthony Rapp and found not guilty in a London civil sex crimes trial in 2023, Spacey was the subject of the Channel 4 documentary Spacey Unmasked, which debuted in the U.S.
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