Yahoo Lifestyle Kevin Spacey Fires Back After Guy Pearce Says He Was ‘Targeted’ on ‘L.A. Confidential’ Set: ‘Grow Up, Guy. You Are Not a Victim’
Kevin Spacey is firing back at Guy Pearce in a video posted on X in which Spacey tells his “L.A. Confidential” co-star to “grow up.” Pearce recently made headlines by telling THR that Spacey “targeted me” on the set of the Oscar-winning 1997 neo-noir crime drama. Pearce called Spacey “quite an aggressive man,” although he added: “Even though 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.”
In his video response, Spacey said he would’ve preferred if Pearce had not “played this out in the media” and “we worked together a long time ago, if I did something then that upset you, you could’ve reached out to me, we could’ve had that conversation. But instead, you decided to speak to the press, who of course are now coming after me because they’d like to know what my response is to the things that you said. You really want to know what my response is? Grow up.”
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“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 Valley of Good and Evil’ just to spend time with me?” Spacey asked. “Did you tell the press that, too? Or does that not fit into the victim narrative you have going? I apologize that I didn’t get the message that you don’t like spending time with me. Maybe there was another reason, I don’t know.”
Spacey concluded, “Here you are now on a mission, some 28 years later, after I’ve been through hell and back to do what? Just in time to stop the bad guy. Is that what’s going on here? What took you so long? Did your horse run out of gas? I mean, you want to have a conversation, I’m happy to do so anytime, any place. We can even do it here live on X if you’d like, I’ve got nothing to hide. But Guy, you need to grow up. You are not a victim.”
Two-time Oscar winner Spacey has not worked in Hollywood since being accused by several men of sexual misconduct starting in 2017. Several legal cases were brought against Spacey in the aftermath. In 2022, a jury in New York concluded that he did not molest actor Anthony Rapp, who had accused him of sexual assault in the early 1980s when Rapp was 14. The next year, a U.K. court found Spacey not guilty of nine charges of sexual assault from four complainants. Several other charges and lawsuits have been dropped. Spacey has denied all the allegations.
Over the years, actors such as Sharon Stone, Liam Neeson, Brian Cox and more have defended Spacey and called for his return to Hollywood. Cox recently told U.K. publication The i Paper that he never found Spacey to be an abusive person and added: “We’ve got to an age now where people are going, ‘Oh, that’s bad, he’s out, boom, he’s cancelled. ’What do you mean ‘cancelled’? How dare you cancel anybody?”
Stone told The Telegraph last year that she “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.”
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