In the cinematographic field, among the hundreds of proposals at the festival in its various sections, some titles stand out that, before being shown, have already become essential at this 79th edition of the Cannes Festival, which is held from May 12 to 23. One of the big surprises at the Cannes Festival was the presence of Kevin Spacey who had no public activities since his legal problem.
Free press highlighted in past articles that the trial began under media expectation, at the end of last June, spacey He had been presented by the prosecution as a sexual harasser who used his influence to assault young men.
The actor, winner of two Oscars for his roles in American beauty and Usual Suspectsstated for his part that all relationships had been consensual and stated that some facts were even pure inventions of the complainants.
Four men accused him of sexual assault in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2013, especially from 2004, when he was director of the renowned Old Vic theater in London.
The most serious charge against the leading actor of House of Cards It concerned a man who accused him of “drugging” him and being intimate with him while he slept.
But jurors dismissed all nine counts, including seven of sexual assault.
The first accusations against Spacey emerged in 2017 at the beginning of the #MeToo movement, at a time when he was at the peak of his fame as the protagonist of the hit Netflix series about an unscrupulous American president.
As a result, he was removed from House of Cards and other projects in which he was going to participate, and he completely disappeared from the screens.
During their police interrogations, released during the trial, the four men said they had not dared to speak before for fear of not being believed, when facing a very famous and influential figure.
To the jury, the actor described himself as a “big flirt” but denied any “violent,” “aggressive” or “painful” behavior, stating that the prosecution’s arguments were “weak.”
He declared himself “destroyed” by the accusations and spoke, visibly emotional, of his “lost reputation.”