Kevin Spacey has been quiet and out of the public eye for over a year after several people came forward with claims that the actor sexually assaulted them. But it looks like the "House of Cards" star's sabbatical could only be short-lived as there are reports that Spacey is plotting a comeback.
According to Page Six, Spacey is still getting offers to do films in Europe and Russia. If he's still being considered for projects despite his recent bad press, then it's likely he'll do a new American movie in a few years.
A colleague said that Spacey strongly believes he can go back to doing movies in Hollywood when the heat on his legal cases blow over. For now, however, he has left from acting and has even gone around Baltimore wearing a "retired since 2017" hat.
On October 2017, actor Anthony Rapp came out to accuse Spacey of sexually assaulting him in 1986, when Rapp was just a teenager. Boosted by the actor's admission, fifteen other people came forward with their sexual harassment allegations against the Golden Globe-winning actor, which forced Spacey to lay low and quit his top Netflix series "House of Cards."
In addition to losing his series, Spacey's agent and publicist also ceased their connections with him. He was also unceremoniously replaced by Christopher Plummer in the Ridley Scott movie "All the Money in the World" a month before the film was to be shown in theaters.
A month later, Spacey released a statement to say that he's seeking treatment for his abusive and deviant behavior. On September 2018, one of his victims filed a lawsuit at the Los Angeles Superior Court, where he alleged that Spacey sexually assaulted him at the actor's house in Malibu in 2016.
On December 2018, journalist Heather Unruh's son filed charges against the actor for a similar offense. Spacey is due to face the courts this week to answer this allegation, and he's pleading not guilty, according to CNN.
But in response to the lawsuits, Spacey released an eerie video titled "Let Me Be Frank," on his YouTube channel. Speaking like Frank Underwood, his character on "House of Cards," Spacey declared that he knows Hollywood wants him back and that he's paying the price of fame for the charges laid before him. Spacey's antics, however, earned criticisms from his fellow actors who think he should be imprisoned as a pedophile and sexual predator.
