After years of legal battles and being largely sidelined by the entertainment industry, the Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey believes that situation may eventually change. The actor has said he is feeling more hopeful about reviving his career, revealing he now feels “welcomed” back to Hollywood after facing sexual assault and harassment allegations for years.
Kevin Spacey on returning to Hollywood
Kevin took a look at the allegations while speaking to Bill Maher on the latest episode of the Comedians’ Club Random podcast. He responded to Bill’s claims of “so much smoke because there is no fire” by referring to the number of allegations made against the 66-year-old actor since 2017.
Kevin noted that he has won “every court case that we’ve gone to with a jury”, adding, “I feel much more welcomed, and I think things are moving in the direction that we hoped they were moving… There are some cases where part of something is true, but it’s been reconsidered, redesigned, or made up entirely of it, certainly in the case of Anthony Rapp, which is one such case. “Which we won in federal court in New York.”
The actor shared that he never said the fire had not happened, adding that “it was not just a massive forest fire”. He called it a “small kitchen fire that could have been put out with an extinguisher”, and acknowledged that many people were affected by it.
According to Kevin, Hollywood is starting to feel like home again. He said, “Well, I feel less in (show business) jail than I did… When people really start to hear the facts, understand what we’ve won in the courts, I think people look at it now and think, maybe nine years is enough. If I was a sports person I’d be benched for seven games. If you’re hitting home runs, they want you on the field.”
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In 2017, allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against Oscar-winning actor Anthony Rapp in 1986. Anthony was 14, and Kevin was 26 at the time of the alleged incident.
At the time, Kevin took to social media to respond to the allegations, writing, “I honestly don’t remember the encounter, it must have happened over 30 years ago. But if I behaved as he describes, I sincerely apologize to him for the extremely inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he has expressed to me all these years.” In response to the allegations, the actor also came out as gay.
The actor was fired from Netflix after the allegations House of cards. He was also removed from All the Money in the World, which had already been filmed, and replaced by Christopher Plummer, reshooting Kevin’s scenes. In 2020, Anthony and another man sued Kevin for sexually assaulting them in the 1980s. The actor was found not liable for battery against Anthony by a jury in 2022.
In May 2024, In statements shared with The Telegraph, Liam Neeson, Sharon Stone, F. Murray Abraham and Stephen Fry expressed their support for him. Brian Cox told The Hollywood Reporter in December 2024 that Kevin has been punished a lot. In 2025, Kevin was the guest of honor at the Better World Fund’s gala dinner during the Cannes Film Festival, where he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for “Excellence in Film and Television”.