Kevin Spacey Trial: Anthony Rapp Says He Continued To See Spacey’s Films After Alleged Sexual Misconduct; ‘American Beauty’ Was “Unpleasantly Familiar”

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Actor Anthony Rapp was back on the witness stand today in the sexual misconduct civil trial of two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey.

It’s Day 3 of testimony in the $40 million lawsuit being tried in U.S. Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan, after taking Monday off for the holiday.

Rapp accuses Spacey of fondling him and trapping him inside a New York apartment in 1986, when Rapp was 14 years old. A Broadway veteran who’s now a series regular on Star Trek: Discovery went public with his claims in October 2017.  RELATED: Anthony Rapp Testifies About “Alarming” Sexual Misconduct By Kevin Spacey When Rapp Was 14 Rapp testified today that he continued to see Spacey films — including The Usual Suspects, Glengarry Glen Ross, L.A.

Confidential and Seven — in the years following the incident out of a sense of obligation to his own love of film and development as an actor. “I’m an actor, and I love films,” he told the court. “I felt it was part of my job to see them.” But the last was Best Picture Oscar winner American Beauty (1999), in which Spacey’s character has a sexual relationship with a teenage girl. “And that was especially difficult to be in the presence of,” Rapp said, because it felt “unpleasantly familiar.” With those movies he could brace himself for seeing Spacey, Rapp testified.