Kevin Spacey was the recipient of the Stella della Mole Award for lifetime achievement in Italy. On Monday, the actor was invited by the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy to choose up the award and later attended a masterclass with the museum director on his life and profession. He was attending his first public occasion since he pled not responsible to a number of sexual misconduct costs in London, England final week. The offences reportedly passed off between 2001 and 2005. (Also learn: Kevin Spacey wins $40 million New York sexual assault civil lawsuit)
Museum president Enzo Ghigo and Undersecretary to the Italian Ministry of Culture Vittorio Sgarbi offered the Oscar winner with the award. According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, the undersecretary said, “Tonight we’re witnessing Kevin Spacey’s comeback. The one living through cinema is an immortal man, and it is precisely him that we are awarding this prize to tonight.” The actor thanked the museum for having “the balls” to invite him for the event.
Later, Kevin also took part in a masterclass with museum director Domenico De Gaetano at Turin’s Mole Antonelliana where he discussed his career. He shared, “Tonight I think about myself extraordinarily fortunate. I’ve been doing this job for over 40 years, and I’ve solely ever acquired kindness and assist from my followers and coworkers. And I’m honored to be a part of this course of.”
His Oscar-winning efficiency in American Beauty (1999) was screened after the masterclass. Kevin thanked his supervisor Evan Lowenstein for being with him via all his troubles. He revealed that it was as a consequence of him that he “realized I had to take all the setbacks and mistakes I made and get back on my feet, move on.”
The actor’s authorized woes weren’t introduced up on the occasion. Besides his current courtroom case within the UK, the 63-year-old actor was discovered not liable in October 2022 for one more sexual misconduct case within the US which concerned actor Anthony Rapp as an adolescent. He is out on unconditional bail till the UK trial continues later this 12 months.
After the actor was accused of sexual misconduct by a number of people in 2017 together with Anthony, he was faraway from final season of Netflix’s House of Cards and his position in Ridley Scott’s All the Money within the World (2017) was recast with actor Christopher Plummer as a substitute.
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