Kevin Spacey will be back in the movies.
The actor returns to the film sets, for the first time in four years and the accusations of sexual assault and harassment formulated against him.
It will be a slow return, since the two-time Oscar winner will be content with a small role in a confidential feature film with a modest budget
.
His last film appearance was in 2018, with
Billionaire Boys Club
.
In November 2017, Netflix had definitively excluded Kevin Spacey from its
House of Cards series
,
which continued despite the legal setbacks of its flagship character, Frank Underwood.
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Louis Nero, who produces
L'uomo Che Disegno Dio
, confirmed to American media
Variety
on Sunday evening
that Kevin Spacey would make an appearance in this independent film shot in Italy and directed by Franco Nero.
The actor would play a secondary role there, that of a detective.
Vanessa Redgrave, wife of the director, also appears in the casting.
"
I am very happy that Kevin has agreed to participate,
reacted the director to ABC News.
I consider him a great actor and can't wait to start shooting the movie.
This film will follow
"the rise and fall of a blind artist, who has a knack for painting lifelike portraits just by listening to people's voices."
Several complaints and lawsuits
Since 2017, Kevin Spacey's career has stalled.
That year, in the wake of the #MeToo movement born out of the Harvey Weinstein affair, the actor was accused of harassment and sexual assault.
While some prosecutions have been dropped, Kevin Spacey remains the subject of investigations in the United States and England.
Most of the charges against him concern men, often young or even adolescents.
At the end of October 2017, the actor Anthony Rapp had thus affirmed that Kevin Spacey had sexually assaulted him when he was 14 years old, in 1986. Other lawsuits were dropped because falling under the statute of limitations or because of the death of one of the complainants.
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More recently, an anonymous man who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Kevin Spacey when he was 14 was ordered to make his identity public if he wanted to continue his proceedings against the comedian. According to the judge, the notoriety of Kevin Spacey
rightly "increased tenfold"
the public's desire to know the identity of the plaintiff, who claimed 40 million dollars (32.6 million euros) from the accused.