AP Explains: Kevin Spacey takes the stand in trial

Описание: (17 Oct 2022)
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New York - 17 October 2022
1. Wide of Kevin Spacey exiting courthouse and walking to car
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
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"Actor Kevin Spacey took the stand in Manhattan federal court today to defend himself against accusations by actor Anthony Rapp that when Anthony Rapp was 14 years old, he made a sexual advance on him in his apartment in 1986, when Kevin Spacey would have been 26. Repeatedly, Kevin Spacey made the point today that he knew, immediately, as soon as he heard the accusation, that it could not have happened. He said 'I knew I couldn't have had any sexual interest in Anthony Rapp or any child.'
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
"Anthony Rapp says he wiggled out and ran to the restroom, then ran out of the apartment and Kevin Spacey ran up to him as he left, saying, 'Are you sure you want to leave?'"
4. STILL of Kevin Spacey exiting courthouse
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
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"Kevin Spacey got most emotional today and began crying when he described how he had made a statement announcing he was gay right after the allegation from Anthony Rapp. And he said he had been actually considering making such a statement for a year and a half. And after this allegation came out, he just wanted to do something, anything, positive. And he put out that statement and he said doing it at the same time as the Anthony Rapp allegation came out made people perceive it as him being manipulative with the timing of the statement."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
"Earlier, he had gotten emotional when he was talking about how publicists and lawyers kept telling him he had to make a statement right away saying he was sorry."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
"And he said 'I was being encouraged to apologize'...said 'I've learned a lesson which is never apologize for something you didn't do. I regret my entire statement.'"
STORYLINE:
Kevin Spacey testified in a New York courtroom Monday that he never made a sexual pass at the actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to take him to bed when he was 14.
Identifying himself as "Kevin Spacey Fowler," the actor was asked about Rapp's claims that a then-26-year-old Spacey picked him up like a groom does a bride after a 1986 party and put him on his bed before lying on top of him.
Rapp testified earlier in the trial that he squirmed out from underneath Spacey in the fully clothed encounter before fleeing the apartment, only to have Spacey follow him to the door and ask if he was sure he wanted to leave.
"They are not true," Spacey said of the allegations.
Spacey said he had met Rapp and another aspiring actor, John Barrowman, backstage following Spacey's Broadway performance in "Long Day's Journey into Night." He said he took them to dinner, to a nightclub and finally to his studio apartment, where he flirted with Barrowman — who was 19 at the time — but showed no interest in Rapp before the two visitors left.
"Anthony Rapp seemed like a kid and John Barrowman seemed like a man," Spacey said in an account that was backed up by a deposition by Barrowman.
Rapp has testified that he and Barrowman went home immediately after the nightclub outing and that it was days later before Spacey invited him to the apartment for the first time. He said Spacey waited for the other guests at the party to leave before making a move on him.
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