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According to Hadley Freeman in guardianwhen Ethan Hawke learned during a call from New York Times that the respected newspaper would publish "a great story about sexual misconduct in the movie industry, focusing on an individual,” the actor replied, “Well, who is that? Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey? ". Because the abusive behavior of the two was an open secret in the Hollywood environment.
One fell in October 2017, the same month of the Me Too movement maelstrom in which Anthony Rapp accused the second of hitting on him in 1986 during a drinking binge, when he was only fourteen. Later, fifteen other men brought similar and more serious accusations, eight of them belonging to the team of Card castleBeau Willimon's magnificent drama series (2013-2018) for Netflix in which Kevin Spacey plays Frank Underwood.
He was written out of the role and executive produced and does not appear in the final season; Christopher Plummer replaced him as J. Paul Getty in the film all the money in the world, by Ridley Scott (2017); and the biopic bloodwho had been shot by Michael Hoffman (2018) for the mentioned platform of diffusion with him in the role of the bisexual writer Gore Vidal (1925-2012), he remains well preserved in some lost drawer of society, complete and never worn.
Netflix hides 'Gore' for more than the Kevin Spacey scandal
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This great movie which is BabyDriverthe best of Edgar Wright (2017) according to critics and in which Kevin Spacey plays Doc, was the last that could be launched before the outbreak of the scandal around it and, therefore, without affecting in any way its distribution and the ballots at the film awards. Corn The Young Billionaires Club, directed by James Cox and starring Ron Levin, grossed around two million dollars at the worldwide box office. A beer.
It had cost fifteen to make. AND blood, thirty-nine to Netflix, which hasn't been able to recover and there's no sign it will be able to. By his decision, of course, but with much more meaning than it seems at first glance. It was not just a question of joining the widespread rejection by the behavior of the performerbut this made the movie uncomfortable for the details of the booklet signed by Jay Parini and Michael Hoffman himself.
Essential details because they are basic in the plot which is narrated, those of the maneuvers of the New York writer with the gestures of Kevin Spacey to seduce young Jamie Haughton by Douglas Booth during the summer of 1982 in Italy, following his unsuccessful candidacy for the United States Senate, as the first screenwriter writes in his essay Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal (2009). Of course, among other vital and political questions he wants to teach you.
A film whose behavior of the main actor made him uncomfortable
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buzzfeed obtained a copy of the text by Jay Parini and Michael Hoffman who was embodied in bloodand contains a good number of scenes in which the protagonist proposes that his object of desire, an aspiring writer visiting with his girlfriend, Husband of Freya Mavor, considers something that happened in ancient Rome to be normal: the sex of adult and powerful men with young men. Which in itself is enough to understand that Netflix chose to hide the film from us.
It explores "one of the central themes of Vidal's life, the intersection of sex, power and consent, and in doing so, inadvertently and disconcertingly echoes the accusations of sexual misconduct against Spacey,” said journalist Adam B. Vary. Well, they couldn't tell because this feature was completed in the weeks before Kevin Spacey's embarrassing resume blew up in his face. Rumors are one thing and certainties are another.
On the other hand, on a trip to Rome, the intellectual tempted Jamie Haughton with two transsexual prostitutes, Petra and Marcella, "two great beauties, one brunette, the other blue-eyed and blonde, dressed in low-cut dresses and fishnet stockings. . The two dance suggestively with Nikolai Kinski's dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, and Gore Vidal presents his pupil with a lamp sculpted with "a couple of men, older man taking younger man from behind".
To the other's involuntary excitement, the perennial Nobel contender says, "You're tough because you're human, and right now it doesn't matter if beautiful Petra is a boy, a girl, or whatever. whatever else. There's no doubt that neither Jay Parini and Michael Hoffman want us to flinch when we hear those words from Kevin Spacey, nor do they want us to step into someone else's shoes. for their work. Corn it is impossible not to twist the gesture well, and those at Netflix know it.
A second chance ?
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"I understand what's going on," he said. Michael Stuhlbargwhich brings Howard Austen to life in bloodfor Hollywood journalist in November 2017, following Netflix's decision to put Kevin Spacey's film in the back of its archives. “Honestly, we all have a hope that maybe, over time, there will be an opportunity to that people see it in the light in which it should be seen".
"I don't know what's going to happen," he continued. “When you work hard on something, you want people to see it. I think there's a desire for that maybe to happen. And, for now, the controversy erupted again when they notified in 2021 that the New Jersey-born actor, and with two Oscars for his Roger "Verbal" Kint of the usual suspects (1996) and the Lester Burnham of american beauty (2000) will come back.
Specifically, featuring Peter Five Eightby Michael Zaiko Hall and starring Rebecca de Mornay as Brenda, and confronting the detective of The user I designed It gave, directed by Franco Nero (2022) and starring veteran Faye Dunaway as Tasha. The second chance for Kevin Spacey that Robin Wright talked about, the Claire Underwood of Card castle? AND the first stage of dedusting blood in the future? Who knows.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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