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16.01.2023 - 19:59 / deadline.com
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has denied he has been keeping a low profile since a string of sexual misconduct accusations brought his stellar career to a halt in 2017, in a rare meeting with the press ahead of an awards ceremony in northern Italy on Monday evening.
“I live my life every day, I go to restaurants, I meet people, drive, play tennis, I’ve always managed to meet generous, genuine, compassionate people,” Spacey told Italian news agency Ansa.
“I haven’t hidden away, I haven’t gone to live in a cave,” he said.
Spacey was speaking ahead of a special honorary event organized by Italy’s National Cinema Museum in the northern city of Turin on Monday.
Deadline’s request to speak to Spacey was turned down but the actor agreed to speak to a handful of Italian outlets including local news agency Ansa.
The actor is due to give a public masterclass, moderated by the museum’s director Domenico De Gaetano and then receive the institution’s Stella della Mole Award for lifetime achievement. Past recipients of the award include Isabella Rossellini, Monica Bellucci as well as directors Xavier Dolan and Dario Argento.
Spacey will then present a special screening of Sam Mendes’ American Beauty for which he won the Best Actor Oscar in 2000.
The event comes just three days after Spacey pleaded not guilty to seven new charges relating to sexual assaults in the UK, appearing via video-link at the court hearing taking place at Southwark Crown Court in London.
A June 6, 2023 date has been set for a trial at which he will also be tried on another five previously processed sexual assault charges.
In October, Spacey was found not liable in a $40m lawsuit brought by Anthony Rapp, whose decision to go public with sexual misconduct
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