The documentary
Spacey Unmasked is airing on the Investigation Discovery channel here in the states. I watched about 3/5ths through until a feline health issue caused me to pause it, and I didn't bother finishing it. I'm too biased (Kevin Spacey is one of my favorite actors) to review it fairly. But most of the testimonials are self-refuting. One guy found Spacey to be a creepy perv but inexplicably kept on letting himself be alone with him; another is a muscular 6'2 ex-Marine who somehow felt physically threatened by Spacey—in an "Oprah moment" he gets up and acts out in regret (I can't remember if he punches himself, or becomes choked up with tears, or both; it's so staged and melodramatic it doesn't even matter). I might watch Spacey's rebuttal, but
Spacey Unmasked is so poor I don't think I have to. One unintended benefit of it is that you can see why Spacey prevails at trial. At every hole in their stories, you wish you could cross-examine these accusers yourself, something the movie refuses to do.
Probably the most interesting aspect of it is its mention of Rupert Everett's decision to be an openly gay actor in the 80s and 90s, and Spacey's decision to remain private possibly having been influenced by Hollywood's treatment of Everett. Or he could just be a private person; it's all speculation. Everett of course played the long game and is now greatly respected. If Spacey did calculate and make an unwise deal with the fame demon, then the debt is being paid. But Spacey may still come through it.
A few actors are now willing to lend him public support. It might be fitting that his star will be as continuously polarizing as the movie in which he plays his finest role,
American Beauty. It's constantly being critically re-evaluated. When it came out it pissed off the religious right, nowadays it draws the ire of the PC left.
