Kevin Spacey has taken his first swing at a comeback, and boy did he aim for the fences.
Famed thespian, Oscar winner, accused creep, and now… busker.
Spacey appeared in front of the Greek statue Boxer at Rest in Rome and delivered a dramatic reading of Gabriele Tinti’s poem “The Boxer” to a baffled crowd and a few journalists he’d tipped off about the stunt.
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The poem, The Telegraph reports, “[is] about an exhausted fighter used for entertainment then left bleeding by the ringside.”
“Standing beside the Greek bronze cast of the ravaged fighter,” the paper adds, “which dates from around 316 BC, Spacey, dressed in a tobacco-coloured suit, intoned the poem to a startled audience at the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.”
It’s the first public appearance Spacey has made since sexual assault charges against him were dropped.
Watch the slightly awkward scene unfold here:
Some of the lines in the clearly topical poem are: “The more you’re wounded the greater you are. And the more empty you are. I have endured no end of sleepless nights. I have spent hours and hours sweating to destroy and fall,” and “They used me for their entertainment, fed on shoddy stuff. Life was over in a moment.”
London’s Metropolitan Police are still investigating three separate claims of sexual assault against Spacey.
No word on whether he made any tips.
Vince
Poor guy needs attention.
Kangol2
What a sad spectacle. Was there at least an audience to cheer or boo him on?
IanHunter
So he’s been hiding out in Rome?
graphicjack
Sorry, Spacey. I am not moved. You preyed on underage youth and no amount of talent or bids of sympathy is going to move me. Your career deserves to be flatlined for eternity. Be grateful you got away with it for as long as you did, shut up, enjoy your money and stop assaulting young men.
rustyiam
Nothing has been proven yet, matter of fact one case just crumbled into thin air due to the accuser being a lying little chit bag. Maybe put your torch away for a bit longer.
Chrisk
I believe Anthony Rapp who said he got sexually assaulted by him at 14.
Cam
@rustyjam
Except you’re lying. The case didn’t “Crumble” the case was dismissed because the accuser decided not to testify, but they won’t answer as to whether or not a settlement was offered.
There are still at least half a dozen other cases, and Anthony Rapp told the Advocate nearly 20 years ago that Spacey tried to molest him when he was a child.
But please keep on lying.
inbama
Nothing is more tiresome than snowflakes who call anyone who disagrees with them a “troll.”
rustyiam
His accuser should be charged for making up a false accusation.
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Make$ one wonder what your motivation was for filling the law$uit…
dmanhart
Plus, this 18 year old “teenager” was at a bar drinking alcohol with his mother.
That says a lot about their character, not Spacey’s.
Cam
@dmanhart
So Kevin Spacey tried to rape a 14 year old, yet according to you that apparently DOESN’T say anything about his character?
Spacey’s legal team needs to hire better trolls.
Donston
It doesn’t matter if one case fell apart. Spacey has directly and indirectly admitted to some wrong-doings. And too many people have come forward with stories, and only a couple were looking for money. Folks can still try to defend him all they want. But at most the dude was an active predator who mostly targeted underage guys and “straight” dudes. At the very least he’s a megalomaniac who gets off on manipulating people, bribing people and putting people in uncomfortable sexual situations. I hope he’s gotten the help he needs. But considering his public appearances since the “scandal” have been creepy spectacles, it doesn’t seem like that’s the case.
rustyiam
Can’t you ever get your point across with a concise 2 or 3 sentence reply? No one reads your rambling long winded dreck!
Donston
Sometimes, yeah. But sometimes a topic or article deserves a more nuanced response, and it incites a lot of thoughts. My posts are sometimes two or three times longer than the actual article but oh well. And more than a handful of folks do read my posts. I know this for a fact. I’d rather be divisive and long-winded than be a simple-minded troll trying to defend a predator.
Cam
@rustyiam
Translation: You couldn’t dispute any of his comments so lashed out hoping to deflect.
jomax36
That’s because in this day and age you are guilty before you are proven innocent. Just the way things are now. Anybody can make up shit an s accused someone of something and ruin that person career for life. Not that I think Kevin Spacey is all innocence either. I mean when he was accused he came out. How dumb can you be. With his money he has. Go off somewhere and just travel or something. Don’t come back all crazy.
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Ronbo
If someone tries to touch you in your bathing-suit area, speak out loudly and clearly “STOP” and tell your mommy and daddy.
If 4 year olds can understand that, why can’t adults?
witwoud
To all the trolls out there who are defending anthropomorphized maggot excrement Kevin Spacey, consider this: in 2003, Kevin Spacey was appointed artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre Company, where he served in that position until 2015. In November 2017, amid a series of sexual misconduct allegations against Spacey, 20 people contacted the Old Vic with claims that he had sexually harassed and/or assaulted them at the theatre during his tenure there. The scandal directly affected audience attendance, and grants partially based on audience attendance.
The Old Vic Theatre has been around since 1818. This is the FIRST time there has ever been a scandal of this nature or magnitude. But, you know, keep on defending a serial predator.