Kevin Spacey has landed his first role after numerous accusations of sexual misconduct.- He will star alongside Vanessa Redgrave in the Italian film "L'uomo Che Disegno Dio."
- "I'm very happy Kevin agreed to participate in my film," the director said.
The disgraced actor Kevin Spacey is set to return to the big screen as a detective investigating the case of an elderly man wrongly suspected of pedophilia in his first film role nearly four years after he was first accused of sexual misconduct.
Spacey will star alongside English actress Vanessa Redgrave in the Italian film "L'uomo Che Disegno Dio" (The Man Who Drew God), which will be directed by Redgrave's husband, Franco Nero.
Nero confirmed Spacey's casting during an interview with ABC News. He said: "I'm very happy Kevin agreed to participate in my film. I consider him a great actor and I can't wait to start the movie."
Spacey, 61, has faced multiple accusations of sexual misconduct in recent years. In 2017, 20 young men accused the two-time Oscar-winner of sexual misconduct during his time at the Old Vic Theatre in London between 1995 and 2013. Following the allegations, Spacey was dropped from his role as President Frank Underwood in the popular Netflix series "House of Cards." He was also edited out of Ridley Scott's 2017 film "All the Money in the World," which at the time had finished production. Reshoots were ordered and Spacey was replaced by Christopher Plummer.
In 2018, Spacey was charged with indecent assault involving an alleged 2016 incident with a teenager on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. He pleaded not guilty and the charge was later dropped. Earlier this month, it was reported that Spacey is set to have a $40 million civil lawsuit dismissed after his accuser, who alleged that the actor sexually assaulted him when he was 14 years old in the 1980s, refused to identify himself publicly. A federal judge ruled that the accuser had to disclose his identity due to the high profile nature of the case.
Spacey has kept a low profile since the allegations surfaced except for an annual Christmas eve message he has tweeted out for the last three years where he performs dialogue in the voice of his "House of Cards" character Frank Underwood.
Last year, Spacey gave a keynote speech at a German business conference and appeared to compare the ways in which his career has been derailed to people losing their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I don't think it will come as a surprise for anyone that my world completely changed in the fall of 2017. My job, my relationships, and my standing in my own industry were gone in just a matter of hours," he said.
"In this instance, I feel as though I can relate to what it feels like to have your world suddenly stop."