Guy Pearce says Kevin Spacey ‘targeting me’ while shooting La confidentially

The emotional and reflective guy Pearce was suffocated during a new interview, remembering unpleasant experiences working with Kevin Spacey on the classical movie Curtis Hanson of 1997. La confidential And the “invitation to wake up” that left him in London more than 20 years later, when he understood the influence they had on him.

Speaking Hollywood reporter Scott Feinberg Executive Awards in a new episode Rewards Podcast, Pearce, who was nominated for his critically recognized turn in Brady Corbet BrutalistIt opens for the first time for a long time about the space and tidal wave of cases of sexual violation that put aside aside Ticket house an acting career.

He only talked about it only briefly when he called Spacey “HanySy Guy” in 2018 to the Australian Talk show Andrew Denton’s Talk show, though he quickly clarified his comments. “I really understand that this is a too sensitive topic to be removed. Although I was not sexually attacked or abused, I was to feel uncomfortable,” he said in a statement of further training. “I was addressing and solving the situation when that happened, hence my regret that I posted it now.”

Pearce is far more open today, but it still carefully chooses its words. Pearce noticed that he was reluctant to use the word sacrifice “although I was probably a victim of degrees; I certainly was not a victim in any way to the extent that other people were in sexual predators.”

Accordingly, Pearce responded to Spacey’s alleged progress on set La confidential By brushing and thinking, “Ah, it’s nothing. Ah, no, that’s nothing,” he said. “I did it for five months and I really got scared Kevin because he’s a pretty aggressive man. He is extremely charming and great in what he does – truly impressive, etc. He holds up the room exceptionally. But I was young and sensitive, and he aimed me, without me, without me, without me, without me, without me, without me, without me, without me, without me, without me, without me, without me questions. “

Hanson’s neo-noir La confidential The following is three police officers in Los Angeles as they explore a series of killings in the middle of the 1950s corruption department. Pearce played one of the police officers, Ed EXLEY, opposite colleague led Spacey and Russell Crowe. While he remains on good terms with his colleague Aussie Crowe, “My Great Friend”, the same cannot be said about Spacey.

While shooting a location in Los Angeles, Pearce was in town with his then wife Kate. He recalled to her that “the only days I feel are safe are the days when (Simon Baker) is on the set because they throw me like hot potatoes, and (Kevin) focuses on (Simon) because he was ten times more beautiful than me I did .

Only decades later Pearce was able to fully process what happened. In October 2017, at a time when Hollywood was on the verge of being supplemented in the middle of the #Metoo movement, actor veteran Anthony Rapp made claims that Spacey made sexual progress at a party in New York in 1986, when he was 14 (14 years old ( Rapp (RAPP later sued, but Spacey was found not responsible.) A wave of charges followed, which stretched from film sets and production locations to the Old Vic Theater, where Spacey was the director of the artist.

Pearce said he caught the headings. “I was in London working on something, and I heard (reports) and I broke and cried and couldn’t stop. I think I really trimmed the impact that happened and how I somehow pushed him away and how I either either laid it down or laid it down Or anything else.

Although he did not determine the date or details of what happened, Pearce noted that he “had had several conflicts with Kevin” since then “became ugly.” Referring to the discovery of a talk show, Pearce said he found himself in a “strange position” that he didn’t want to focus on his personal experience with Spacey, “I don’t want him to get away with what escapes.”

Now he has a new strategy for that. “I’m just trying to be more honest about it now and call it what it is.”

Thr He addressed the MP for Spacey for a response to Pearce’s comments. Spacey has long rejected any claims of incomplete behavior. In addition to being cleaned in the Rapp case, Spacey was acquitted of all nine charges of sexual abuse by the British jury of 2023, which ended the perennial battle that overthrew his once -famous Hollywood career. “I’m humble with the outcome,” he said at the time.

In his typical Rewards Style, Finberg’s interview with Pearce was a deep dive into an acting career. Covered Pearce’s early days in Australia, achieving local fame on soaps like Neighbors and Home and far away followed by the role of breaking the Queen in a cult classic Priscille adventure, the queen of the desert. Then became a talent for top -notch autheurus after another interruption in Christopher Nolan Memory followed by decades of high work, all that led to his current Oscar nomination for Brutalist. It is worth pointing out that the A24 movie finds Pearce playing Harrison Lee van Buren Sr., a rich American industrialist who sexually attacks the central male character. Piece Rewards The interview focuses on his work in an epic film, which is nominated for 10 Oscars and finds Pearce who plays as opposed to his colleagues Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.

Listen to Pearce’s full Rewards interview here.