Yahoo Lifestyle Kevin Spacey To Guy Pearce’s Accusation He Was “Targeted” On ‘L.A. Confidential’ Set: “Grow Up. You Are Not A Victim”
“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.
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“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. on Max last year. The Oscar winner faces a fresh civil trial in the UK this year, brought by a man who says the actor sexually assaulted him, causing him “psychiatric damage” and “financial loss.”
Spacey has said in interviews that he may have behaved inappropriately in the past, but denies that he behaved illegally. He has said he has suffered financially.
“I can’t pay the bills that I owe,” Spacey told Piers Morgan last year after revealing his Baltimore home was in foreclosure following his lack of work since the allegations. “I’m not quite sure where I’m going to live now.”
In 2018, Pearce called Spacey “a handsy guy,” but did not elaborate much.
“I apologize that I didn’t get the message that you don’t like spending time with me,” Spacey said in his video today, before questioning why it took Pearce so long to say anything.
“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, huh? Is that what’s going on here? What took you so long?”
The Oscar-winner continued, “I’m here to have a conversation any time, any where. We can even do it here live on X if you want. I’ve got nothing to hide.”
Pearce, however did say he spoke up at the time.
“I addressed and handled the situation when it took place, hence my regret at making it public now,” he said.
Pearce also said in initially downplayed the alleged behavior.
“‘Ah, that’s nothing. Ah, no, that’s nothing,’” he said he told himself. “I did that for five months, and really I was sort of scared of Kevin because he’s quite an aggressive man. He’s extremely charming and brilliant at what he does — really impressive, etc. He holds a room remarkably. But I was young and susceptible, and he targeted me, no question.”
Explaining why he has talked about it since Pearce said, “I very much understand [now] that it’s too sensitive a topic to be brushed off.”
He also alleged that Spacey paid a lot of attention to co-star Simon Baker, who played a handsome but naive aspiring actor willing to sleep with a male D.A. in order to get ahead.
“The only days I feel safe are the days when [Simon Baker] is on set because I’m dumped like a hot potato, and [Kevin] focuses on [Simon] because he was 10 times prettier than I am,” said Pearce.
Grow up, Guy Pearce. You are not a victim. pic.twitter.com/33paGTj4Aq
— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) February 18, 2025
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