Kevin Spacey has responded to and criticised, Guy Pearce’s recent claims of unwanted advances during the filming of L.A. Confidential.
Earlier this week, Guy Pearce opened up about his unpleasant experience working with Kevin Spacey on the 1997 film L.A. Confidential. Pearce said that at the time, he responded to Spacey’s alleged advances by brushing them off and thinking “Ah, that’s nothing. Ah, no, that’s nothing”.
He continued: “I did that for five months and really, I was sort of scared of Kevin because he’s quite an aggressive man… But I was young and susceptible, and he targeted me, no question.”
Pearce then said that he had only been able to fully realise what happened after allegations against Spacey came to light a few years back: “I was in London working on something, and I heard [the reports] and I broke down and sobbed, and I couldn’t stop. I think it really dawned on me the impact that had occurred and how I sort of brushed it off and how I had either shelved it or blocked it out or whatever. That was a really incredible wake up call.”
He continued: “Even though I probably was a victim to a degree; I was certainly not a victim by any means to the extent that other people have been to sexual predators.”
Now, the disgraced Spacey has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to respond directly to Pearce’s allegations. In a video captioned “Grow up, Guy Pearce. You are not a victim”, Spacey said he would have preferred if Pearce had not “played this out in the media”.
“We worked together a long time ago, if I did something then that upset you, you could’ve reached out to me, we could’ve had that conversation. But instead, you decided to speak to the press, who of course are now coming after me because they’d like to know what my response is to the things that you said. You really want to know what my response is? Grow up.”
Grow up, Guy Pearce. You are not a victim. pic.twitter.com/33paGTj4Aq
— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) February 18, 2025
“Did you also, by the way, tell the press that a year after we shot L.A. Confidential you flew to Savannah, Georgia, while I was shooting Midnight in the Valley of Good and Evil just to spend time with me?,” Spacey asked. “Did you tell the press that, too? Or does that not fit into the victim narrative you have going? I apologise that I didn’t get the message that you don’t like spending time with me. Maybe there was another reason, I don’t know. But that doesn’t make any sense that you would’ve just been leading me on, right?”
Spacey concluded: “Here you are now on a mission, some 28 years later, after I’ve been through hell and back to do what? Just in time to stop the bad guy? Is that what’s going on here? What took you so long? Did your horse run out of gas? I mean, you want to have a conversation, I’m happy to do so anytime, any place. We can even do it here live on X if you’d like, I’ve got nothing to hide. But Guy, you need to grow up. You are not a victim.”
Guy Pearce has yet to respond to Spacey’s rebuttal.
Spacey was accused of sexual assault by Anthony Rapp in 2017, with a number of other accusers then coming forward in the next few years. In 2022, a jury in New York found that Spacey wasn’t liable for battery in relation to Rapp’s accusations, and last year, a court in the UK found him not guilty of nine counts of alleged sexual assault.
Last year, new allegations against the House Of Cards actor surfaced in the Channel 4 documentary Spacey Unmasked. Spacey, who has denied all allegations made against him, wrote on X (Twitter) at the time, “I will not sit back and be attacked by a dying network’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in their desperate attempt for ratings.”
Meanwhile, in July, it was revealed that Spacey had to sell his $5.6million home in Baltimore, Maryland for $3.24million to avoid bankruptcy after telling Piers Morgan in an interview the previous month that he was broke.
For more help, advice or more information regarding sexual harassment, assault and rape in the UK, visit the Rape Crisis charity website. In the US, visit RAINN.
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