On Monday night, the University of Oxford hosted What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Cancel Culture, a lecture from columnist Douglas Murray honoring the late conservative British philosopher Roger Scruton. There, Kevin Spacey performed a five-minute scene from Timon of Athens, marking his first onstage appearance since being acquitted of sexual assault in July. The audience punctuated his performance with a standing ovation.
Before the performance, Murray said: “In an era of cancellation and defenestration, we sometimes forget that we both cannot go on like this and that we have...
Before the performance, Murray said: “In an era of cancellation and defenestration, we sometimes forget that we both cannot go on like this and that we have...
- 10/17/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
A London movie theater that was set to host the debut of Kevin Spacey’s new film Control — one of the actor’s first roles since he was accused of sexual misconduct — has canceled the movie’s premiere, saying it was “horrified that we are being mentioned in the same breath as his new film.”
Prince Charles Cinema, a movie theater near London’s Leicester Square that screens independent films, notified the producers of the Welsh thriller Control that the theater would not premiere the film after learning that Spacey is in the film,...
Prince Charles Cinema, a movie theater near London’s Leicester Square that screens independent films, notified the producers of the Welsh thriller Control that the theater would not premiere the film after learning that Spacey is in the film,...
- 10/15/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Kevin Spacey has booked his latest film project just weeks after winning a sexual battery lawsuit in the U.S., an individual with knowledge of the casting told TheWrap on Monday.
The two-time Oscar winner will voice a mysterious and murderous antagonist who takes control of a self-driving car, akin to Kiefer Sutherland’s vocal performance in Joel Schumacher’s “Phone Booth.”
The film, entitled “Control” and written and directed by Gene Falliaze, is about a British government minister, Stella Simmons (Lauren Metcalf), who has an affair with the Prime Minister (Mark Hampton). One night, Simmons heads home in her self-driving car to find the vehicle remotely hijacked by someone who knows her secret and wants to punish her.
Shooting will take place early next year at Camberwell Studios and on location in London, while Spacey will wrap his purely voice-over role this week. The actor recently won a 40 million...
The two-time Oscar winner will voice a mysterious and murderous antagonist who takes control of a self-driving car, akin to Kiefer Sutherland’s vocal performance in Joel Schumacher’s “Phone Booth.”
The film, entitled “Control” and written and directed by Gene Falliaze, is about a British government minister, Stella Simmons (Lauren Metcalf), who has an affair with the Prime Minister (Mark Hampton). One night, Simmons heads home in her self-driving car to find the vehicle remotely hijacked by someone who knows her secret and wants to punish her.
Shooting will take place early next year at Camberwell Studios and on location in London, while Spacey will wrap his purely voice-over role this week. The actor recently won a 40 million...
- 11/28/2022
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
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