Kevin Spacey is speaking out on cancel culture and redemption in a new interview with Lex Fridman . The two-time Oscar winner, who was acquitted of sex assault charges in London last year, has been slapped with new allegations of inappropriate behaviour from men who appeared in a documentary that aired on British television last month. In response, the American Beauty star posted a 20-minute rebuttal, titled “Kevin Spacey: Right of Reply,” which streamed on X .
I n an online interview with journalist Dan Wootton, Spacey went on to say he has never done anything illegal and admitted that he has struggled to get back to work after being acquitted last year of criminal charges in a London court. “I can’t go through this again, allowing myself to be baselessly attacked without defending myself,” he said in the interview that was aired on Wootton’s YouTube channel . In his chat with Fridman, which was released onto YouTube this week, Spacey, 64, said that for all of Hollywood’s talk about “redemption,” it is actually an unforgiving town.
“I live in an industry in which there is a tremendous amount of conversation about redemption, from a lot of people who are very serious people in very serious positions who believe in it,” Spacey told Fridman (per The Hollywood Reporter ). “That guy who finally got out of prison who was wrongly accused ..
. We see so many people saying, ‘Let’s find a path for that person. Let’s help that person rejoin society.
’ “B.
