Kevin Spacey on Tuesday denied targeting Guy Pearce on the set of 1997’s L.A. Confidential, telling Pearce to “grow up” and that “you are not a victim.”
Spacey’s response came one day after Pearce told The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast that Spacey “targeted me, no question,” while on the set of L.A. Confidential, also saying he had told his then-wife that the only days he felt safe on set were when co-star Simon Baker was present, because Spacey focused on Baker instead.
Pearce said the 2017 #MeToo movement, in which multiple allegations of sexual misconduct were leveled against Spacey and other prominent men in Hollywood, was “a really incredible wake-up call.”
“I was in London working on something, and I heard [the reports] and I broke down and sobbed, and I couldn’t stop,” Pearce recalled. “I think it really dawned on me the impact that had occurred and how I sort of brushed it off and how I had either shelved it or blocked it out or whatever.”
Pearce also told THR that he was reluctant to use the word victim “even though I probably was a victim to a degree; I was certainly not a victim by any means to the extent that other people have been to sexual predators.”
THR reached out to Spacey’s reps on Monday, but the actor responded publicly on X Tuesday.
“We worked together a long time ago,” Spacey said, addressing Pearce. “If I did something then that upset you, you could have reached out to me. We could have had that conversation, but instead, you’ve decided to speak to the press, who are now, of course, coming after me, because they would like to know what my response is to the things that you said. You really want to know what my response is? Grow up.”
Spacey went on to recall that Pearce flew to Georgia about a year after L.A. Confidential “just to spend time with me” while Spacey filmed Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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