Kevin Spacey bashes cancel culture in first performance since exoneration: ‘I am sick of this false world’

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Kevin Spacey was met with a standing ovation last night (October 16) as he returned to the stage for the first time since being cleared of sexual assault charges.Spacey performed a brief scene from the Shakespeare play Timon Of Athens at a theatre in Oxford, during a lecture held in memory of the late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton.Evidently, the extract had been chosen for a reason. Douglas Murray, the conservative columnist who delivered the lecture and invited Spacey to perform in Oxford and delivered the lecture, told the Times that Timon of Athens was about what “happens when a society drops a person for no reason”.Views of Scruton’s legacy remain divisive, and while his work was admired by conservatives, he has been accused of fuelling modern anti-immigrant sentiment.In July, Spacey was acquitted of all nine charges he was facing, including seven counts of sexual assault, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity.He was accused of sexual offences against four men, alleged to have taken place between 2001 and 2013.

Ellise Shafer Kevin Spacey made a surprise appearance at an Oxford lecture honoring late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton on Monday night, performing for the first time since he was acquitted of sexual assault charges in London. In a clip from the event titled “what Shakespeare can teach us about cancel culture,” The Spectator associate editor Douglas Murray invited Spacey on stage to perform a monologue from “Timon of Athens.” “In an era of cancellation and defenestration we sometimes forget that we cannot go on like this and that we have been here before. We know this because our greatest writers and artists have addressed this question in their own times,” Murray said, referencing when Scruton was briefly dismissed from a government commission in 2019 over offensive remarks he made in an interview with the New Statesman.

Control due to Kevin Spacey’s involvement.Spacey has a voice role through phone calls in the thriller, which marks the actor’s first project since he was cleared of sexual assault charges at a London trial in July.As reported by The Telegraph, Greg Lynn, who runs the London cinema based near Leicester Square, wrote an email to Control actor and producer Lauren Metcalfe to inform them of the cancellation.“We have an issue,” the email from Lynn reads. “It is with my apologies that I have to inform you that we have cancelled your hire with us.“Last night it came to our attention that your film features Kevin Spacey, in particular his first film since the court case.

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fearing a heart attack.The “American Beauty” star appeared to be relaxed as he emerged from Oswald’s, a private members’ club in Mayfair, West London, on Thursday evening – just 48 hours after the scare, The Sun reported.Spacey, 64, was smiling as he left the venue wearing a sports jacket over a white cardigan and a baseball cap bearing the tongue-in-cheek slogan “Out Of Office,” photos published by the outlet show.The former “House of Cards” star is understood to be eagerly hunting new roles since being acquitted of sex assault charges in London earlier this summer.Spacey underwent an MRI scan after Monday’s incident, which occurred during the 15th Tashkent International Film Festival, but doctors gave him the all-clear, The Sun said Wednesday.“He was treated professionally by doctors and staff and found to have no problem with his heart,” a source told the outlet.Spacey returned to the festival and appeared on stage that night, telling the crowd his health was “normal.”“It made me really take a moment and think about how fragile life is — for all of us,” the Oscar winner told the audience, explaining that he wanted to shake off the numbness but his group advised him to get checked.