When he complained to a woman he worked for, she laughed it off and she said, “You can cope, you can handle it.
“I just don’t like people’s hands on me.” “The first time that he touched me was just a massive shock,” he said. The man who testified Monday said he reacted with horror when Spacey first made physical contact by rubbing his neck early in their work relationship in the early 2000s. He served as artistic director at the Old Vic from 2003 until 2015. He was written off the Netflix political thriller “House of Cards,” and cut from the completed film “All the Money in the World." His career dried up when sexual misconduct allegations against him arose as the #MeToo movement exploded. Once one of the biggest actors of his generation, Spacey won an Academy Award for supporting actor in “The Usual Suspects” in 1995 and best actor Oscar for the 1999 movie “American Beauty.” He’s also won awards for the stage and small screen. The trial, which is expected to last four weeks, continues Tuesday before a jury of nine men and three women in Southwark Crown Court.
He could go to prison if convicted, though Spacey told a German magazine that he expects he’ll be offered work "the moment I am cleared of these charges.” The charges include sexual assault, indecent assault and causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to a dozen charges for events that date from 2001 to 2013. “He’s a bit like that, a bit creepy,” the man said in his police interview last year. He likened Spacey to the villain he played in the 1995 thriller “Se7en" about a serial killer motivated by the seven deadly sins. He said Spacey made him uncomfortable querying him about his sexuality, then became “touchy-feely” and graduated to aggressive groping when they were alone together. The accuser, who cannot be identified under British law, is one of four men the former “House of Cards” star is accused of assaulting in the U.K. “It was well known he was up to no good,” the man said in a video of his police interview played for jurors in Spacey’s sexual assault trial. “He was almost right from the get-go grooming me.” But the man said the word around the playhouse was that he should be careful around Spacey. The man, who worked with Spacey when he came to the British capital's Old Vic Theatre in the early 2000s, said the American actor offered to introduce him to Hollywood stars.
LONDON (AP) - One of Kevin Spacey's accusers described the Oscar-winning actor in a London court Monday as a “slippery, snaky” predator whom good-looking young men were warned to avoid.
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