So it really was just a house of cards after all?
The house will remain standing another year, though. Season 6, 13 episodes, is still expected to debut mid 2018. I mean, the film’s in the can and money’s money, right?
I obviously disagree.
I think any apology that contains an “if I did it” is half-assed. (And that looks intentional. Spacey also writes “it would have been” not “it was”.) So is an “apology” that offers excuses like it happened a long time ago or I was drunk.
And Spacey didn’t say he was horrified at his own behavior. He said he was “horrified to hear [Rapp’s] story.” At best, he was distancing himself from what he did. At worst, it can be interpreted that Spacey was horrified that Rapp was telling people what he did. I’m sure lots of criminals are horrified when their crimes are revealed.
Spacey’s response was “if it happened, I was drunk”. If he’s not gonna call the accuser a liar, then why would I?
Did you mean “does” instead of “doesn’t”?
Me too.
I wondered if they’d pull the plug. I was kinda hoping President Claire would kill Frank in the first or second episode of S6, and we could carry on with that hanging over her.
From what I just read, it’s still in production. They can at least give it a fitting conclusion.
Well, since someone called him that up thread, yeah, it is.
That wasn’t the post I responded to. I was responding to somebody who wrote that what Spacey had done wasn’t so bad because it wasn’t forcible rape.
The 6th season (which is filming now) was already planned on being the final season. Netflix did **not **cancel the series because of this scandal.
I was 12 and then 14-years old for the two instances of men coming onto me as a boy. Nothing happened but I remember the advances more clearly than anything else from that period of my life. Not sure why - can’t put it in an human evolutionary context. Maybe the invasion of personal space and prospect of intimacy kicked in some survival chemicals.
Spacey can take care of himself.
I’ve been thinking about Rapp’s position. I can see that having a drunken actor climb on top of you when you’re 14 could be traumatic. Hell, I know it can, I experienced molestation as a kid of about the same level, ie nothing major happened but it was still unpleasant. Sure, I remember it but it had no effect on my life whatsoever. It happened, it was no big deal, I got over it in no time at all. Now I’m thinking, if the guy who did it (minor fondling) had been known to me (he wasn’t) would I really want to come forward decades later and destroy the guy’s life? I wouldn’t. Rapp has probably destroyed Spacey’s career. If the actor turns out to have been a serial offender then fair enough. But if this was an isolated incident the punishment is out of all proportion to the crime. I’m wondering what Rapp hoped to achieve by coming forward.
I tend to think a famous actors sense of entitlement might have hoisted him by his own petard.
Well, yeah. No studio would want to take the risk of having a show produced, something comes out about an actor and then they’re out however many millions of dollars because they need to throw the whole thing away.
Every time the topic of “What film/TV/music/literature can you not enjoy because of creator’s sins?” comes up, 2/3rds of the responses are “Well, I can separate the art from the artists so I’d never not watch something just because the actor/producer/director raped and murdered an orphanage…” So why would Netflix trash a mostly-done season of shows?
From what I hear, Spacey’s been the missing stair for a long time. People quietly saying to young male interns that they shouldn’t go into his dressing room alone, etc. He was known in the business to be predatory, and to prefer boys/young men under 20.
Yeah, as a matter of fact it’s briefly noted in the Nov. 5 issue of TIME, which is out right now and was obviously printed last week.
Way to jump on the morality train, Netflix!
You might say, they read the cards.
In 1986? Actor sure, famous? Not so much. He was 5th billed and getting good reviews in a Broadway revival of Long Days Journey Into Night but he was unknown outside of theater circles. It would be years before he became Hollywood famous.