LONDON ā Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behaviour from men who will feature in a documentary on British television that is due to be released next week.
In an online interview with journalist Dan Wootton, Spacey said he has never done anything illegal and admitted that he has struggled to get back to work after being acquitted last year of criminal charges in a London court.
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āI canāt go through this again, allowing myself to be baselessly attacked without defending myself," he said in the interview entitled āKevin Spacey: Right Of Replyā which was aired late Friday on Woottonās YouTube channel.
Last July, a London jury acquitted Spacey on sexual assault charges stemming from allegations by four men dating back 20 years. The court victory was his second since he saw off a $40 million lawsuit in 2022 in New York brought by āStar Trek: Discoveryā actor Anthony Rapp.
The documentary āSpacey Unmaskedā is set to be aired on May 6 and 7 on Channel 4 in Britain and streamed on Max in the U.S.
The documentary is said to feature testimony from men regarding events between 1976 and 2013, the actor revealed during the interview.
āI take full responsibility for my past behaviour and my actions, but I cannot and will not take responsibility or apologize to anyone whoās made up stuff about me or exaggerated stories about me,ā said Spacey, who won Academy Awards for āThe Usual Suspectsā and āAmerican Beautyā.
āIāve never told someone that if they give me sexual favors, then I will help them out with their career, never," he added.
Spacey, who served as artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre in London from 2004 to 2015, again admitted that he was a āflirtā with men in their 20s and that he made āclumsyā passes at times.
āIāve clearly hooked up with some men, who thought they might get ahead in their careers by having a relationship with me," he said. "But there was no conversation with me, it was all part of their plan, a plan that was always destined to fail, because I wasnāt in on the deal.ā
The actor also claimed on X, formerly Twitter, that he had ārepeatedly requestedā that Channel 4 give him more than seven days to respond to the allegations made about him in their documentary.
Spacey said the broadcaster refused āon the basis that they feel that asking for a response in 7 days to new, anonymized and non-specific allegations is a āfair opportunityā for me to refute any allegations made against me.ā
āEach time I have been given the time and a proper forum to defend myself, the allegations have failed under scrutiny and I have been exonerated,ā he added.
Spacey said he has struggled to get back to work after being acquitted of all criminal charges, describing his experience as a ālife sentence.ā
His acting career has been adversely affected since 2017 when he was first publicly accused of inappropriate behaviour at the beginning of the #MeToo movement. He then lost his lead role as Frank Underwood in the Netflix drama āHouse of Cardsā.
Channel 4 has been contacted for comment.