Kevin Spacey
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Kevin Spacey is practically broke and his Baltimore home is in foreclosure, the embattled actor admitted while sitting down for a lengthy interview this week with Piers Morgan on the perennial TV host’s Fox News show.
The interview with a friendly Morgan on his YouTube show, Piers Morgan uncensored, takes a broad look at Spacey’s life. Included – sometimes through the actor’s tears – are details of his tumultuous childhood family life with a Nazi sympathizer father; a discussion of his continued estrangement from Hollywood, although the accused actor obtained several not guilty verdicts as allegations about his past sexual misconduct collapsed in British and American courts; and Spacey’s categorical denials of some of the new accusations thrown at him in a new Channel 4 documentary.
The session culminated with Spacey revealing that he was essentially in financial ruin, with his Baltimore home on the verge of foreclosure seven years after he was accused of misconduct and abuse by multiple men in 2017. While as new accusations poured in, Spacey almost instantly lost. his deal with Netflix and the lead role in his then-major series, Card castle. All offers of acting work for the two-time Oscar winner dried up as most of his friends and associates disappeared, along with his reputation as a prestige actor in Hollywood.
“This week the place I live in Baltimore is being foreclosed on. My house was sold, so I have to go back to Baltimore and pack up all my stuff,” Spacey admitted with tears in his eyes after Morgan asked him where he lives now. “So the answer to the question is: ‘I don’t really know where I’m going to live now.’ »
When asked to clarify exactly why the foreclosure was taking place, Spacey told Morgan, “Because I can’t pay the bills I owe,” but said he had managed to avoid declaring bankruptcy, ” from now on “. However, when Morgan asked how much money Spacey had, he told her: “None.”
“Well, you have some idea of the legal bills. I still have a lot of legal bills,” he told Morgan, who pressed him on what he now owed his lawyers. Spacey replied: “Several millions.”
Earlier in the interview, Spacey explained that one of those who unfollowed him immediately after the accusations became public was his Card castle co-star, Robin Wright. After her firing from the series by Netflix, Wright moved from the role of first lady Claire Underwood to its president Frank Underwood, to take on the lead role of the series after the death of Spacey’s character. Spacey, despite being entirely shut out by Wright when the scandal surrounding him became public, had nothing bad to say about his longtime colleague, whom he said enjoyed making everyone on set laugh. days.
“I think by getting away from me, it allowed him to not have to answer a lot of questions. And I understand that,” he said of Wright, with whom he worked decades ago on the 1998 film adaptation of the play. Hurlyburly. “I try very hard not to be judgmental and to try, even when people do things that I don’t understand, to try to seek understanding rather than judgment.”
Morgan and Spacey also delved into the actor’s tumultuous childhood early in their conversation. Spacey detailed the soul-searching he’s done over the past few years regarding his mother and his complacency over the abuse he suffered as a youth at the hands of his father.
In a New York courtroom in 2022, while facing accusations of sexual misconduct from actor Anthony Rapp in 1986 when the latter was 14, he told the court that his father was “a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi” and that he “had grown up.” in a very complicated family dynamic” which led to feelings of shame about his sexuality (Rapp had called Spacey a fraud because he was not a gay man).
Spacey told Morgan that he began to understand his mother, who he said told him that his father’s racism, homophobia and violence were things he simply needed to “get rid of.” chest,” and his father – which he revealed in the During the interview, a Nazi flag hung in his bedroom.
“I came to see the journey (his father) took as a doctor during World War II. And going through his albums, going through his journals, and seeing what he wrote, what he felt when he went to Germany after the war,” Spacey explained. “And the slow indoctrination that happened to him with a number of people who came into his life. And how he found a reason why he failed to become the great writer he wanted to be. It’s a long, sad story. But I must also seek to forgive.
In the interview, Spacey also addressed the new documentary Spacey unmasked, which premiered in the UK on May 6 and 7 (followed by a release on Max a week later), and featured 10 new accusations against the actor from various men from his past. Spacey was quick to point out that it was unclear whether any payola was involved in the men who showed up in the film to accuse him of sexual wrongdoing.
“I don’t know why Channel 4 hasn’t yet told the British public whether they were paying these individuals to tell these stories,” Spacey said. “My brother has been paid repeatedly for telling false and insane stories. So we know they approached people and told them they would pay them. So, did they pay these individuals to tell these stories?
Channel 4 did not immediately respond The Hollywood Reporterrequest for comment.
The actor, accused in the documentary by a Card castle A member of the security team and a former Marine who worked with Spacey on a film showing sexual advances toward them also produced email correspondences with these two men that he said occurred well after the alleged incidents. One of the men apparently sent a strategically posed nude photo to the actor after Spacey allegedly made an unwanted pass at him. The Marine who accused him of making advances toward him while looking at him Saving Private Ryan in 1998, he sent Spacey a letter requesting work on a film more than a decade later. Spacey, who said he had never seen Steven Spielberg’s World War II drama, suggested it was proof the men were unbothered and continued their relationship with him after the incidents discussed in the Channel 4 documentary.
The actor also shared that in recent years, as his personal wealth vanished, he was offered some roles in films, but his hopes of a career revival were dashed when a single executive got cold feet over his involvement in each project. However, he now has three independent films coming out in the coming months and he hopes to finally return to his true passion.
“What I hope for is the opportunity to continue telling stories. Because that’s what I feel I was put on this earth to do,” he told Morgan. “And if I’m lucky enough to have inspiring collaborators who are excited to work with me, come together and put all of that in the past, I can come to a film set and make sure that everyone is having a good time, making sure people get what they need to do the best job they can…and helping to make sure everyone is treated well. And I’ve learned from my. own mistakes.