Current Events > Kevin Spacey Compares His #MeToo Shunning to Pandemic

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https://www.thewrap.com/kevin-spacey-compares-his-metoo-shunning-to-pandemic-i-understand-what-its-like-being-told-you-cant-work-video/

Kevin Spacey broke his silence and spoke to a crowd for the first time since his #MeToo accusations of sexual assault back in 2017, comparing him losing his job and his ability to act to people who are out of work as a result of the coronavirus.
Spacey spoke as part of a German business conference called Bits & Pretzels, giving a roughly 10-minute speech that was streamed virtually from his home. In it he explained that while he usually doesnt like to tell people he can relate to their situation, he said in this instance, I can relate to what it feels like to have your world suddenly stop.

I dont think it will come as a surprise for anyone that my world completely changed in the fall of 2017. My job, my relationships and my standing in my own industry were gone in just a matter of hours, Spacey said. And so while we may have found ourselves in similar situations albeit for very different reasons, I still feel that some of the emotional struggles are very much the same. And so I do have empathy for what it feels like to suddenly be told that you cant go back to work, or that you might lose your job, and its a situation you have absolutely no control over.

Spacey made an analogy to driving a car in pursuit of dreams and the pitfalls of defining yourself by your work and said he was lost when he and his figurative car stopped and were lost.
I was so busy defining myself by what I did or what I was trying to do that when it stopped, I had no idea what to do next, because all I ever knew was how to act, Spacey said. When my career came to a grinding, screeching halt, when I was faced with the uncertainty that I might never be hired as an actor again, I had asked myself a question Id never asked myself before, which is, if I cant act, who am I?
Most recently at the end of last year, Spacey settled a sexual assault lawsuit with an unidentified massage therapist who had said the actor forced him to touch his genitals twice during a massage session in Malibu. The man died earlier in 2019 of undisclosed causes, according to his attorney.
Spacey has posted a pair of videos on Christmas Eve for each of the last two years, performing as his character from House of Cards Frank Underwood, but these are among his first public comments that have addressed his life after #MeToo.

This guy.
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Well, at least he's not comparing the pandemic to slavery or the nazis, like those other people.

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His House of Cards youtube videos were scary. Wonder if he killed those accusers who ended up dead.

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"Kill them with kindness."

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I think he really is Frank Underwood at this point. I bet he talks in that accent 99% of the time now.
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He pops up every couple months to do something really dumb and get the opposite of gain sympathy (which I assume he is trying for in his own socially unaware way)

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One of the worst speeches ever given to Germans.

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Kevin Spacey is awesome.

That's all.

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He'd almost have a point if he was talking about someone who had engineered the virus and then lost their job because of the pandemic.

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Can he just fuck off already.

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https://twitter.com/ComplexPop/status/1258099686243799042

Dude looks like Hitler lmao
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Smashingpmkns posted...

https://twitter.com/ComplexPop/status/1258099686243799042

Dude looks like Hitler lmao

His final solution would have worked, unlike Adolf's.

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spacey going full underwood

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Lebronwon posted...

Wonder if he killed those accusers who ended up dead.

He definitely had them murdered.

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What asshole invited him to be a speaker at this thing?

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Smashingpmkns posted...

https://twitter.com/ComplexPop/status/1258099686243799042

Dude looks like Hitler lmao

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Smashingpmkns posted...

https://twitter.com/ComplexPop/status/1258099686243799042

Dude looks like Hitler lmao

lmfao

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Reminds me of when Stephanie McMahon compared her dad's steroid trial in the early 90s to 9/11.

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