Kevin Spacey Praised & Defended By Liam Neeson, Sharon Stone, & Stephen Fry In Wake Of Biting UK Documentary & New Trial; “Our Industry Needs Him,” Says ‘Taken’ Star
“I was deeply saddened to learn of these accusations against him,” Taken franchise star Neesom told the Telegraph today. “Kevin is a good man and a man of character. He’s sensitive, articulate and non-judgmental, with a terrific sense of humour. He is also one of our finest artists in the theatre and on camera.
Personally speaking, our industry needs him and misses him greatly,” Neeson, no total stranger to controversy himself, concluded.
Basic Instinct star Stone told the UK broadsheet: “I can’t wait to see Kevin back at work. He is a genius. He is so elegant and fun, generous to a fault and knows more about our craft than most of us ever will.”
Addressing the claims of assault and more that Spacey has fought against in and out of court since 2017, past Oscar nominee Stone added: “It’s terrible that they are blaming him for not being able to come to terms with themselves for using him and negotiating with themselves because they didn’t get their secret agendas.”
Some of those so-called agendas against Spacey, who has won most of the sexual misconduct suits against him over the past several years or seen them shuttered due to deaths and more, were unveiled in Channel 4’s May 4 debuting Spacey Unmasked. The Katherine Haywood directed series, which launched on Max in the U.S. earlier this week, tracks claims from a number of men against Spacey from the beginning of his career up to his stint as the scheming President Frank Underwood on Netflix’s House of Cards.
take full responsibility for my past behavior and my actions,” Spacey said earlier this month in an online interview with ex-GB News presenter Dan Wootton. With language that he was been using since the first accusations against him were made in 2017, Spacey added: “But I cannot and will not take responsibility or apologize to anyone who’s made up stuff about me or exaggerated stories about me.”
Spacey has also said that he was not given the needed time to fully respond to the claims in Spacey Unmasked.
To that, today’s remarks from Neeson, Stone and others clearly are a coordinated attempt by Spacey and his representatives to reframe the narrative they fear the docuseries is laying out – despite the victories Spacey has had in the courts.
Whispered about for years, Spacey came out “as a gay man” in October 2017 in an ill-considered knee-jerk response to Star Trek: Discovery actor and Broadway star Anthony Rapp’s assertion that the older and more established actor made unwelcomed sexual advances to him back in 1986. Making the allegations all the more inflammatory was the fact that Rapp was 14 years old at the time of the purported incident in Spacey’s NYC apartment.
