Anthony Rapp says seeing American Magnificence was “unpleasantly acquainted”

Kevin Spacey is at present on trial in New York over a $40 million civil lawsuit from Anthony Rapp, who has accused him of constructing “undesirable sexual advances when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26” (as this Variety story puts it). Rapp has been testifying, having already described the “alarming” encounter he allegedly had with Spacey in 1986 last week, in addition to the explanation he didn’t inform anybody about it on the time.

Deadline experiences that Spacey’s attorneys have been attempting to argue that Rapp made up his allegations towards Spacey out {of professional} jealousy, saying that Rapp was annoyed that his determination to come back out as brazenly homosexual had left him with restricted profession alternatives as an actor. Apparently that led to Rapp discussing how he feels about Spacey’s profession, which ended up with him testifying that 1999’s American Magnificence was the final of Spacey’s films that he ever noticed (up till then, Rapp stated he felt prefer it was his “responsibility” to see Spacey’s films as a result of “they have been by and enormous very acclaimed”). In American Magnificence, Spacey performs a person who’s interested in—and tries to have intercourse with—his daughter’s teenage pal, which Rapp says was “unpleasantly acquainted” for him.

Anthony Rapp first accused Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct in 2017, saying he was “compelled” to come back ahead after listening to the accusations towards Kevin Spacey. Thought it was his first time naming Spacey in public, he stated on the time that he had privately been telling pals about his allegations for years. There was also an old Advocate interview with Rapp from 2001, which resurfaced after his allegations towards Spacey got here out, wherein he accused an unnamed actor in an unnamed “award-winning movie” of constructing an undesirable sexual advance towards him when he was 14.