Kevin Spacey has denied grabbing a man’s genitals so hard on the freeway that the man nearly crushed the car they were both traveling in.
Spacey, who is in the third week of his UK sexual assault trial, told the jury at Southwark Crown Court in London that the alleged assault never happened. On Thursday morning, Spacey’s attorney, Patrick Gibbs KC, asked the actor, who was sitting in the witness box, if the “car crash” incident took place in the early 2000s. to which Spacey replied, “No. I wasn’t on a suicide mission any of those years.
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Earlier, he told the jury that his alleged accuser was “naughty” and that the touching did not occur in an “aggressive” or “violent” manner.
“I’m a big flirt,” Spacey replied when asked if he was a flirt himself. “We had a really fun time together,” the actor told the court. He added that the man said the experience was new to him and he didn’t want to go any further. “I respected that,” Spacey said.
Of another alleged victim, who claimed Spacey grabbed him ‘hard’ backstage at a charity event after he made aggressive sexual remarks, the actor said: ‘I never said of what he claims to have told him and would not and never have in my life.
When Gibbs asked him what Spacey thought of the man’s accusations of being caught, the actor replied, “It’s crazy. It’s madness because it never happened.
Gibbs also asked Spacey about the most serious allegation, in which he is accused of drugging a man before performing oral sex on him while he was unconscious. Spacey said when initially questioned by police, he did not recognize the alleged victim’s name, photograph or allegations. The actor said his first thought was, “This is someone who shakes me up and I’ve dealt with this before.”
Originally, the alleged victim believed the encounter took place in mid-August, which Spacey proved could not be the case due to his frequent international travels that month. After a private investigator tracked down the complainant’s phone number at the time, phone records showed Spacey made numerous phone calls and sent a number of text messages to the man on the night the incident allegedly took place. took place within months of the alleged assault, including a 19-second call during the period the man claimed he was unconscious.
Spacey also said he found an old phone in his storage locker that showed he had saved the man’s number in his phone.
The ‘House of Cards’ actor’s account of the evening is that the two men had a consensual sexual encounter in which Spacey performed oral sex on the complainant during what was a “very pleasant and charming”. Spacey said he then went to the bathroom and when he returned the man left “in a hurry”.
“If he regretted it immediately, I don’t know, I can speak for him,” Spacey said. “But something was strange, something strange and it concerned me.”
Earlier, Spacey appeared relaxed and smiling in the witness box. After his lawyer’s opening remarks, the 63-year-old actor told jurors he had an “excessive” amount of energy when he was younger and was recommended to go to fitness classes. ‘dramatic Arts.
Spacey attended the Juliard School of Drama in New York, he told the court. He was asked when he started acting and he replied, “My mum would say when I got out.” His first jobs were small roles in Shakespeare In The Park shows in New York, he said, adding that he then did three years of regional theater.
The court heard that his first film role was in 1985 when he was 26 and his first major role was in ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ (1992).
Spacey, who is denying 12 sexual assault charges against four men, spoke in court about his time as artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theater and the connection he felt to its “remarkable story”. “I was crazy enough to throw my hat in the ring,” Spacey said of the role, adding that when he landed the lead role in Netflix’s hit drama “House of Cards,” he began to spend long periods away from the theatre. He dropped out of the Old Vic role in 2015.
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