Kevin Spacey has made a uncommon look in Cannes on the Higher World Fund Gala, the place he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in movie and TV.
Throughout his acceptance speech, the actor, 65, quoted Elton John and stated he was “nonetheless standing” – showing to allude to creating headlines over time after he was accused of alleged sexual misconduct by varied males, together with actor Anthony Rapp.
Spacey was just lately cleared of 9 sexual assault prices in a UK courtroom.
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He has beforehand denied all allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
In his speech on Tuesday night, with a part of it being shared by Selection on X, the Home of Playing cards star stated to the group: “And as my buddy Elton John as soon as stated, the explanation this implies a lot to me [is] as a result of I am nonetheless standing.”
“I am nonetheless standing,” he repeated, referring to the music legend’s 1983 hit, I am Nonetheless Standing.
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“I would love you all to lift your glasses and simply toast to friendship. Which may get us by something on this life.”
Selection additionally studies that Spacey, who seems in new movie The Awakening, added: “Who would have ever thought that honouring somebody who has been exonerated in each single courtroom he is ever walked into can be considered a courageous thought.”
His look mark the actor’s first go to to Cannes since 2016, and the gala dinner is a breakaway occasion not formally sanctioned by the pageant.
In accordance with The Telegraph UK, the Cannes Movie Competition didn’t invite Spacey to the pageant and a press release stated that the gala occasion has “no affiliation in anyway to the pageant”.
It was reported in February 2025 that one other alleged sexual abuse declare was lodged in opposition to Spacey.
Actor Ruari Cannon is suing Spacey and two organisations linked to London’s Previous Vic theatre, the place Spacey reportedly labored as an inventive director from 2003 to 2015.
Three months in the past, Man Pearce alleged he was “focused” by fellow actor Spacey and “scared” of him on set of their 1997 movie, L.A. Confidential.
The Australian actor claimed on The Hollywood Reporter’s podcast Awards Chatter that he had “dismissed” his experiences with Spacey, however “sobbed” when Spacey made headlines round 2017 when he was accused of alleged sexual misconduct by varied males, together with actor Anthony Rapp.
When requested about Spacey on the podcast, Pearce, 57, stated: “I did that factor lots of people do.”
However he didn’t specify precisely what occurred.
“I do not wish to use the phrase sufferer… Though I most likely was a sufferer to a level, I used to be actually not a sufferer by any means to the extent that different folks have been to sexual predators,” he continued.
“However I did that factor that you just do the place you sweep it off and go, ‘oh, no that is nothing…’ and I did that for 5 months.
He claimed Spacey would “dump him like a sizzling potato” when actor Simon Baker was on set.
He claimed he had confronted Spacey just a few occasions.
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In a video shared on his official X account, Spacey hit again at Pearce and captioned it: “Develop up, Man Pearce. You aren’t a sufferer.”
“You actually wish to know what my response is? Develop up. Did you additionally, by the best way, inform the press {that a} 12 months after we shot L.A. Confidential, you flew to Savannah, Georgia, whereas I used to be capturing Midnight within the Backyard of Good and Evil, simply to spend time with me?”
“I imply, did you inform the press that, too? Or does that not match into the sufferer narrative you could have going?”
“I apologise that I did not get the message that you do not like spending time with me. I imply, possibly there was another excuse. I do not know. However that does not make any sense that you’d have simply been main me on, proper?” he added in a part of the message.
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