(ANSA) - TURIN, JAN 16 - "I live my life every day, I go to restaurants, I meet people, I drive, I play tennis, I've always met generous, genuine and compassionate people.
I didn't hide, I didn't go to live in a cave" Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor involved in the Weinstein wave with a lawsuit won but other proceedings pending for allegations of homosexual harassment, told ANSA.
Spacey, not without controversy, is in Turin where he receives the Stella della Mole from the Cinema Museum and where he holds a masterclass.
"What you see in the media is not real life, I'm not reclaiming public life because I never left it," he added.
"I will be forever grateful to Franco Nero for making me return to the set, for offering me a film when everyone else was scared. The role doesn't matter, what matters is his gesture, what he did at a particular moment in my life. He called me and said 'regardless of everything' I want you to be in the film and this not only as a person but as an actor meant a lot", said the actor again speaking of the first role that brought him back to the set, The Man Who drew God, second directed by Nero.
The two-time Oscar winner had his career literally wiped out by #MeToo and despite being acquitted in 2022 from a first civil suit filed by actor Anthony Rapp, he underwent other trials following allegations of homosexual harassment.
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