Kevin Spacey posted the Christmas Eve video that nobody wanted on Thursday.
The actor, who saw his career fall apart in 2017 after a series of sexual assault charges, has made Christmas Eve’s bizarre videos a tradition for the past three years.
Spacey, 61, a South Orange native facing a New York lawsuit by two men who accuse him of sexual misconduct, titled his latest video “I-800 XMAS”. In it, he seems to talk about people who are struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Well, actor and documentary filmmaker Alex Winter, who plays Bill in “Bill & Ted Face the Music” and in the other “Bill & Ted” films, was up to the task of baking Spacey.
Winter, 55, who lived in Montclair when she was younger, shared a message from Spacey’s video on Twitter Thursday night.
“It gets even better,” says Spacey in the original clip, directing people to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline (1-800-273-8255).
Yes, a man who has been accused of sexual assault by a number of people is telling everyone that “it gets better”.
“What would Christmas Eve be like without a message from me?” Spacey says, picking up the camera and pointing his face at Kevin Spacey’s close-up that no one wanted.
Winter mimics Spacey’s close-up and his Frank Underwood accent in parody. Spacey has used the voice of the character “House of Cards” in his annual Christmas Eve clips.
“That’s right, it’s a message from me,” he says with Spacey’s slurred speech. “Doing that small talk of acting that I learned at Juilliard and that southern accent. You would never know that I was from New Jersey. Me me Me. It’s all about me. It will always be about me. “
His eyes flee from the camera for an instant, as if he is being trained.
“Oh, and if you’re not feeling well, call a suicide prevention hotline,” he says. “They are telling me that I need to rehabilitate my image”.
Winter is the director of “Zappa”, Frank Zappa’s documentary released in November.
Spacey posted his video three months after two accusers sued him in New York. They say that Spacey made sexual advances towards them in the 1980s, when they were 14. One of the accusers is actor Anthony Rapp of “Star Trek”, 49, who was the first man to accuse Spacey of sexual misconduct in 2017. He says that Spacey was 26 when the alleged incident happened in 1986. The other accuser, who remains anonymous, says Spacey sexually assaulted him when he was a theater student in the early 1980s.
An 18-year-old bar worker in Nantucket, Massachusetts, accused Spacey of groping him in 2016. Spacey pleaded not guilty to a felony indecent assault and battery charge. Prosecutors dropped the case last year.
An anonymous masseuse from California accused Spacey of groping him and forcing him to touch Spacey’s genitals during a treatment session. He sued the actor. The lawsuit was shelved after the massage therapist died in 2019.
The Oscar-winning actor was fired from Netflix’s “House of Cards” series and reworked into the movie “All the Money in the World” as the charges against him accumulated in 2017.
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