Kevin Spacey said he believes his career is on the rise again in Hollywood after facing dozens of sexual misconduct and harassment allegations.
“I feel much more welcomed and I think things are going in the direction that we wanted them to go,” the “House of Cards” actor said Monday on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.
Spacey, 66, said he has won “in every courtroom we’ve been in with a jury.”
“Sometimes something is true in part, but it can be rethought, redesigned, or even completely fabricated,” he argued.
“That’s certainly the case with Anthony Rapp, a case we won in federal court in New York,” Spacey said, referring to Rapp’s claims that he made unwanted sexual advances toward the Broadway star when he was just 14 years old.
Maher, 70, told guests he believed some of the allegations against him were justified.
“I’m not going to lie. I judge scandals by the numbers. If it’s one person, I’m always like, ‘I don’t know if you weren’t in the room,'” the comedian told Spacey.
But in the case of the “American Beauty” star, Marr said there was “too much smoke for it to be a fire.”
Spacey confessed that some of his actions went too far.
“I never said there wasn’t a fire, but it wasn’t a raging forest fire. It was a small fire in the kitchen that could have been extinguished with a fire extinguisher,” he told Maher.
“I picked up a lot of guys,” the actor added.
Mr Maher suggested Spacey “deserved some kind of punishment”, but also claimed the “Seven” actor “paid a heavy price” for his crimes.
“I feel lighter than I did in prison,” Spacey said. “I think once people actually start hearing the facts and understanding that we won in court, people will look at this now and think maybe nine years was enough.”
“If I was an athlete, I would have sat on the bench for seven games,” he added. “If you’re hitting home runs, they want to have you on the field.”
Spacey has faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct and assault since late 2017, but he has vehemently denied all allegations.
Rapp filed a $40 million civil lawsuit alleging sexual assault and assault. However, in October 2022, a federal jury found Spacey not responsible in all respects.
After the allegations surfaced, Spacey was fired from Netflix’s “House of Cards” and instead appeared on “All the Money in the World.”
In 2023, a London jury found the Usual Suspects actor not guilty of nine sex crimes, including sexual and indecent assault and causing sexual penetration between 2001 and 2013.
In March, Spacey reached an out-of-court settlement with three men who allege they were sexually assaulted by the disgraced actor between 2000 and 2013.
