‘I was sort of scared of Kevin because he’s quite an aggressive man’. Oscar nominee Guy Pearce has revealed that Kevin Spacey “targeted” him while they were filming the 1997 neo-noir movie LA Confidential. Pearce added: “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.”. The Memento star said that he brushed off Spacey’s actions towards him for five months. “Ah, that’s nothing. Ah, no, that’s nothing,” he said. “I did that for five months, and really I was sort of scared of Kevin because he’s quite an aggressive man.
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"He's extremely charming and brilliant at what he does - really impressive. He holds a room remarkably. But I was young and susceptible, and he targeted me, no question," Pearce claimed. Spacey was initially accused of misconduct by Anthony Rapp who alleged that the actor made sexual advances towards him as a 14-year-old when Spacey was 26 in the 1980s. Rapp’s allegations were later dismissed by a Manhattan court in 2022. Spacey has since faced several more allegations of sexual misconduct over the years, all of which he has either denied or insisted were consensual.
In 2023, Spacey stood trial in the UK after four men alleged that he had sexually assaulted them in separate incidents over the period between 2001 and 2013. He was again cleared of all nine offences. Earlier this week, Spacey was hit with another sexual abuse claim. Ruari Cannon is suing Spacey as well as two organisations connected to the Old Vic Theatre in London, with court records showing the claim was filed on Wednesday (12 February). No details of the allegations involved are currently available.
