“Thank you for having the courage to invite me here tonight.” Kevin Spacey he says it correctly in italian: “le balls”. During the awards ceremony that saw he received the Stella della Mole in the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, the two-time Oscar winner wanted to thank several people and launched what appeared to be the world’s first, albeit indirect, comment on his legal case. Many people thanked Turin for the recognition: from his partner Evan Lowensteinto the Secretary of State for Culture Vittorio Sgarbi – who quotes Caravaggio before the award ceremony – to his Italian voice actor Robert Pedicini (present with a lot of motivation for the award read live) and to the fans, without whom “I would not have had this career”. Spacey, in a black tuxedo and purple/burgundy bow tie, recalled his first role at school as a bank robbing comwboy, the first of many that “filled him in”: “Put on someone else’s shoes, understand the people behind them.” characters with it has become my life”. Finally, before he sits down and embarks on the master class of his career, here’s the jab that will set the debate well over the butt: “My heart is full of gratitude for the cinema museum, who had the balls to invite me here tonight. The reference to the weight of silence endured over the past five years as Spacey was cut from the films is clear (All the money in the world), with a claim for damages removed from the sentence house of cardsessentially erased from the history of Hollywood cinema.
it was there first exit publish World of the American Beauty, Seven and The Usual Suspects actor after the whirlwind of sexual harassment allegations that swept him in November 2017 and essentially paralyzed his career. However, Spacey recently won the mother of all allegations with an acquittal: the trial that saw Anthony Rapp as the victim, who first accused and then denounced the actor in 1996 for molestation. In other debates, in the United States, Spacey was found not guilty, or the case was dropped, or the charges were dropped due to the accuser’s sudden death. But today they stay in being seven accusations ended up on trial in British territory between 2001 and 2004 by three men on charges of sexual misconduct. From Turin, where he had been for several days, Spacey video-connected to one of those trials before the judge at Southwark Crown Court in London, who pleaded not guilty to the seven charges against him. This is the legal premise before the Turin Prize was awarded, which took place after a master class in the Cinema Museum. The museum responded to the controversy over the past few days about the award of the Oscar winner: “No concerns. We reward Spacey’s artistic life, we are the cinema museum, the home of cinema and we talk about cinema”.
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